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"Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master."
"Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless."
"It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England."
"Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing."
"We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need."
"And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles."
"I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic."
"Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life."
"How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!"
"You can't just wish to be a millionaire; you have to figure out how to earn it."
"I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there."
"I wish I wasn't famous. I wish I was still in school So that I could have you in my dorm room, how I'd put it on you"
"I just wish I had longer. It's very frustrating. As you know, to people over here, cities like [Washington] D.C. are iconic. We know them so well. It's very frustrating to be in one of them for 36 hours and have a show to do because you can't really do anything."
"I wish I was like you! You know startled by direct sunlight."
"I just want to say I owe the whole reds organization a great deal. Great staff top to bottom and I wish those guys all the best."
"You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present."
"Now I'm not making love to anyone's wishes, Only for that light I see 'Cause when I'm dead and lowered low in my grave, That's gonna be the only thing that's left of me."
"I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing."
"I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me."
"I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it."
