- Hope
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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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- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not doubt that there are many countries that will wish to trade with the U.K. post-Brexit, but understandably they will wait to see what the U.K.'s ultimate relationship with Europe will be.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not much you can complain about - you're a Major League Baseball player; you're getting paid to play a game. People want to be you, wish they could do what you do. There are some complaints here and there, but there really aren't any significant ones.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wish is to be a catalyst, to push for solutions, to broker peace talks, to ensure accountability, especially for those who committed and are still organizing unspeakable crimes.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.
- Irony
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.
- Nov 07, 2020
My one wish before I die is to talk to Bremer. I want to find out who he did it for. He did it for somebody else.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020