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wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange townand the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week earlyand wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves. Lucille Clifton
Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking. Orson Scott Card
Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John. Charles Dickens
John Galsworthy quote: "Wishes father thought, but they don't breed evidence."
Wishes father thought, but they don't breed evidence. John Galsworthy
Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and enslaved, just as the Prophet Muhammad decided centuries ago. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced. Michael Ende
Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes. Emily Bronte
Robert Anton Wilson quote: "Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for..."
Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship. Robert Anton Wilson
Isabel Allende quote: "Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities...."
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. Isabel Allende
Benjamin Franklin quote: "Wish not so much to live long as to live well."
Wish not so much to live long as to live well. Benjamin Franklin
Jack Kerouac quote: "wishing there was a Personal God in all this impersonal..."
...wishing there was a Personal God in all this impersonal matter. Jack Kerouac
G. I. Gurdjieff quote: "Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God."
Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God. G. I. Gurdjieff
Edward Young quote: "Wishing of all employments is the worst."
Wishing of all employments is the worst. Edward Young
Andrew Young quote: "Wishing of all strategies, is the worst."
Wishing of all strategies, is the worst. Andrew Young
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. Thomas Sowell

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