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"Now: For those of you who are lazy I can offer no hope: death will not bring you an eternal resting place. You may rest, if this is your wish, for a while. Not only must you use your abilities after death, however, but you must face up to yourself for those that you did not use during your previous existence."
"How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?"
"The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become"
"The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members cannot wish that away, that is a reality."
"If you could wish on a star right now, what would you wish for?"I ask him. "For time to stop. "Why?" He shrugs. "Cause I could live forever at this moment."
"Sometimes I wish there were do over years or fast forward days"
"We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming."
"Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness."
"Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce."
"I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better."
"I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron."
"Style is all about your individual sense of how you want to present yourself to the world. It's about loving what you've got instead of wishing for what you're not."
"I'm the Chairman Emeritus, and according to my contract I am supposed to devote 10% of my time to working for Marvel... and the rest of my time, I can do anything that I wish."
"For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon."
"If wishes were wings, pigs would fly."
"If wishes had wings, sheep would fly."
"If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai."
"I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented."
"I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written."
"Sometimes I wish I were less sensible."
