George W. Bush Quotes, Wish Quotes, Violence Quotes

You know, obviously I wish the violence would go down, but not as much as the Iraqi citizens would wish the violence would go down. But, incredibly enough, they showed great courage, and they want our help.

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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Wish Quotes , Shy Quotes

So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Wish Quotes

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

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The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Roots Quotes , Wish Quotes

A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.

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Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Wish Quotes , Devil Quotes

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

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The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours, Even in the moment that we call them ours.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Wish Quotes

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Wish Quotes

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.

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Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Latin Quotes , Wish Quotes

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Mother Quotes , Wish Quotes

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Heart Quotes , Wish Quotes

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

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Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wish Quotes , Littles Quotes

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Wish Quotes , Desire Quotes