Quotes with wish-it

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  • Anna Held I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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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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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Anthony Hope I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Jane Austen I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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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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  • Abraham Cowley I would not fear nor wish my fate,
    But boldly say each night,
    To-morrow let my sun his beams display,
    Or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Berkeley Breathed I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Ovid If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • V.S. Naipaul If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the 'conception of the thought which we wish to retain.
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  • Agnes Macphail If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Leo Buscaglia If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Thomas Carlyle If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Horace If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Brian Tracy If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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