912 Quotes About Wish


  • Author Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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    The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

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  • Author Emile M. Cioran
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    Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

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  • Author Hélène Cixous
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    She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets the other language speak - the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back; it makes possible.

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  • Author Jimmy Carter
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    And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

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  • Author Mick Cronin
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    Obviously, I wish we could have had him. Things happen. What are you going to do?

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