Wishful Quotes (page 53)

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• soul
• i love you
• you me

you have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on. Jane Austen

• wishes
• common
• commonality

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable. William Shakespeare

• leaving
• enough
• pretty

Oh, don't I wish I could manage things for you as I do for my heroines! You're pretty enough and good enough already, so I'd have some rich relation leave you a fortune unexpectedly; then you'd dash out as an heiress, scorn everyone who has slighted you, go abroad, and como home my Lady Something in a blaze of splendor and elegance. Louisa May Alcott

• thinking
• wishes
• scenes

I think he would not wish himself anywhere but where he is." - Henry V, Act IV, scene i William Shakespeare

• life
• wishes
• look

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Ray Bradbury

• confused
• love
• words

I couldn’t get the words exactly right; I only remembered wishing that Jacob were my brother so that we could love each other without any confusion or pain. Stephenie Meyer

• wishes
• drinking
• effort

The thing is, I’ve never believed in feuds. Don’t get me wrong: I’ve been angry with people. Very angry – with people like Patrick Meehan, or that lawyer who tried to bill me for a drink, or Bob Daisley. But I don’t hate them. And I don’t wish them any harm. I reckon hating someone is just a total f**king waste of time and effort. What do you get out of it in the end? Nothing. I’m not trying to come over like the Archangel Gabriel here. I just think that if you’re pissed off with someone,... Ozzy Osbourne

• believe
• wishes
• resolute

He had no wish to be killed by a bogle in which he resolutely did not believe. C. J. Cherryh

• men
• fate
• friend

What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did not she come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends. George MacDonald

• sailing
• fire
• no time

You wish to sail a ship up stream by lighting a fire under its decks, I have no time for such nonsense. Napoleon Bonaparte

• mistake
• wishes
• manners

I have no wish to talk nonsense."If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense. Charlotte Bronte

• sleep
• profound
• mourning

She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening. Tanith Lee

• saying
• wishes
• positive

Faith is neither hope nor trust, but a particular spiritual state. Faith is man’s awareness that his position in the world obliges him to perform certain actions. A person acts according to his faith, not as the catechism says because he believes in things unseen as in things seen, nor because he wishes to achieve things hoped for, but simply because having defined his position in the world it is natural for him to act according to it. Leo Tolstoy

• believe
• wishes
• she

She [Madame Duvall] seems desirious to repair the wrongs she has done, yet wishes the world to believe her blameless. Fanny Burney

• running
• wishes
• wish

My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that. Lewis Carroll