Wish Quotes - Page 30

• Nature has given you everything: you have got unlimited resources. The foundations of your State have been laid, and it is now for you to build, and build as quickly and as well as you can. So go ahead and I wish you God speed.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Foundation, Speed, States

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• People say, "I wish I had more motivation today, because then I would try something." But our thinking is backward. The way our brain works is that dopamine - the so-called feel-good chemical - is released the second we actually do something. So the motivation doesn't come before, it comes after.

  Brendon Burchard

  Motivation, Thinking, People

  "The Motivation Manifesto". Book by Brendon Burchard, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2014.

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• I feel like they would just be the funnest people. I wish I could have been friends with Michael Jackson, just because he had the most badass house of all time and I could just go out and go on amusement park rides and then he could teach me how to moonwalk.

  Thomston

  Badass, People, House

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• We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Powerful, Heart, People

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• It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Feelings, Quality, Merit

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• Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.

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• The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem is about [Osip] Mandelstam, who was a great poet and an anti-Stalinist, and [Cesar] Vallejo, who was a great poet and a Stalinist.

  Robert Hass

  Thinking, Poet, Humans

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• I deal with what "is," not with what I wish was or not with what was or used to be.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Used, Deals, Used To Be

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I wish I had [letters], can you imagine their value, and I don't mean merely financially. I am sure they were accidentally destroyed or that Schaub found them and destroyed them. [Adolf] Hitler didn't want those letters read by anyone but Eva [Braun] and had made that point clear in the course of the years.

  Gretl Braun

  Mean, Years, Letters

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• The Left Opposition declared that the new tempo of industrialization were above our forces, and that the liquidation of the kulaks as a class in the course of three years was a fantastic task, if one wishes to say so, we find ourselves this time "less radical" than the Stalinists.

  Leon Trotsky

  Class, Years, Tasks

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• I hold that this must be said, for treaties only make sense when concluded by honor-loving peoples and honor-conscious governments. Germany wishes to establish honest relations with the peoples of neighboring countries. We have done this in the East, and I believe that not only Berlin but Warsaw as well will rejoice in the decontamination of the atmosphere brought about through our joint efforts.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Believe, Government

  Source: nseuropa.wordpress.com

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• I wish that our culture could retain the symbolism and emotional power of traditional religion while combining it with reason and science and using the combination to enhance our humanity rather than impoverishing it by choosing the one side or the other.

  Allen W. Wood

  Emotional, Symbolism, Humanity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

  Bill Mollison

  Thinking, Want, Death Wish

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• I only wish that I had had the courage and the knowledge to have gotten that out of my system, out of my mind or my heart years earlier. But there is no book, there is no manual to tell you how to deal with sexual abuse.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Book, Heart, Years

  "Sugar Ray Leonard - "The Big Fight" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Somewhere the glamour has gone because of the industrialization of this whole process. I wish it [filming] felt as magical and glamorous as people want it to be, but it feels like a routine people are going through.

  Toby Jones

  People, Industrialization, Gone

  "Toby Jones' Hitchcock Hang-Ups". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. October 24, 2012.

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• There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Done

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Decision, Levels

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I will release my tax returns - against my lawyer's wishes - when she releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted. As soon as she releases them, I will release.

  Donald Trump

  Mail, Return, Lawyer

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated" by Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• What you do is you say, fine, you want to go to Mexico or some other country, good luck. We wish you a lot of luck. But if you think you're going to make your air conditioners or your cars or your cookies or whatever you make and bring them into our country without a tax, you're wrong.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Good Luck, Thinking

  "Transcript: The most important exchanges of the presidential debate, annotated". www.latimes.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I have so much respect for people that can do it [tredmill running], I wish I could because it looks really cool and really fun.

  Gigi Hadid

  Running, Fun, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I fear looking back and wishing I had done things I hadn't.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Done, Looking Back

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• I wish I could, instead of destroying things like that, I wish I could build, build, build.

  Sergei Polunin

  Destroying, Destroying Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wish I could have built without destroying things.

  Sergei Polunin

  Destroying, Destroying Things, Built

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wish I hadn't worked so hard; I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me; I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings; I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends; and I wish I had let myself be happier. It's an extraordinary list of getting in your own way, isn't it?

  Tom Hiddleston

  True Life, Feelings, Way

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• I wish we could be decent to each other.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Decent

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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