Quotes on the topic: Wish


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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.


I personally hope and wish that Britain will stay part and parcel of the European Union.


If you wish to have free access to the single market, then you have to accept the fundamental rights as well as obligation that come from it.


Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.


I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.


Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.


I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.


You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.


Divorce is horrible. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I don't think it's anything that's ever completely resolved.


I wish there was a news channel that really told you what was going on in the world, not just sensationalized news.


There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.


Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.


People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.


It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.


Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.


Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.


I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.


My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.


It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.


My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me.