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Wishful Quotes (page 96)

But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I remember everything that happened that day becasue it has happened many times in my life. The same innocence, trust, and restlessness; the wonder, fear, and lonliness. How I lost myself. I remember all these things. And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. I wished to be found. Amy Tan
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy,..."
Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin). Leo Tolstoy
A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man? the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye. Charlotte Bronte
George Orwell quote: "Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one..."
Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss. George Orwell
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the dark movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman, and a ride home. I was wishing I looked like Paul Newman - he looks tough and I don't - but I guess my own looks aren't so bad. S. E. Hinton
Dodie Smith quote: "How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!"
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel! Dodie Smith
Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when wishing apparently no longer led to anything, and Leigh-Cheri eventually named it Prince Charming after that son-of-a-bitch who never comes though. Tom Robbins
Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad, then, but I didn't mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular. Mark Twain
Thomas S. Monson quote: "Work will work when wishy washy wishing won't."
Work will work when wishy washy wishing won't. Thomas S. Monson
Emily Dickinson quote: "An ear can break a human heart. As quickly as a spear, We wish..."
An ear can break a human heart. As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart. So dangerously near. Emily Dickinson
Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests]. Edward de Bono
Leonardo da Vinci quote: "He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a..."
He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year. Leonardo da Vinci
The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden. Beatrix Potter
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more... Charlotte Bronte

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