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  • Bernard Berenson I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Bruno Mars I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Emily Brontë I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
    Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XII)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • J. R. Tolkien I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
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  • Abigail Adams I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
    Letter to John Adams (24 September 1774)
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Nicholas Breton I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of fiends, and empty purse.
    Nicholas Breton
    English poet and novelist (1545 - 1626)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Anna Harrison I wish that my husband's friends had left him where he is, happy and contented in retirement.
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  • Anne Rice I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Annie Dillard I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Abdul Kalam I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Edith Wharton I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Kim Basinger I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
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  • Anne Stevenson I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Arthur Golden I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Arne Duncan I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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