Quotes by category:Wish

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were ther... by A. A. Milne

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

wish wonder piglet

If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

answers wish people

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

wish robins world

Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in... by A. B. Simpson

Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.

ifs expression wish

Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish. by Aaron Hill

Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.

wish knows joy

You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easi... by Abbi Glines

You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.

wish-you easier wish

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach. by Abbie Hoffman

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

language wish people

I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions, and which never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he honestly seeks the Truth.

soul wish men

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

endurance wish character

To-day is ours; what do we fear? by Abraham Cowley

To-day is ours; what do we fear?

sorrow wish may

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

cutting wish men

Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

wish heart world

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men ev... by Abraham Lincoln

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Abraham Lincoln

freedom wish men

As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

Abraham Lincoln

reading wish book

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

Abraham Lincoln

holiday wish war

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

Abraham Lincoln

slavery wish thinking

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

Abraham Lincoln

forgiveness wish looks

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

Abraham Lincoln

political money wish

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

Abraham Lincoln

politics wish believe

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

Abraham Lincoln

slavery wish men

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