- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wish Quotes
On wishing for more - understanding, time, and change.
Wishing shows up here in very different registers: a scientist wishing ordinary language could capture atomic structure, a wish that Israelis could witness daily life across the border firsthand, and a simple wish to take on more creative work. I Wish continues the theme.
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- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't sit and wish for some ideal; the grass is not always greener with the big house and cars and artwork.
- Spirit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
A growth strategy requires tax rates that people are prepared to pay and cannot avoid or do not wish to avoid by going offshore or leaving the country.
- Fraught
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our problem as a country is that most of us do not want to join the euro, and we wish to stay aloof from the common frontiers of the free-travel Schengen area. This makes our relationship with the E.U. fraught with tension and trouble.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
- Heartily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.
- Nov 07, 2020
With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020