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Wish Quotes - Page 70

The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.116, Enhanced Media Publishing

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.

Song: Teachers, Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.7186, e-artnow

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.94, Hachette UK

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.

Jules Michelet (1859). “Love: ("L'amour.")”, p.55

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

Joseph Story (2013). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States”, p.14, Quid Pro Books

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

Gary Carey, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1972). “More about All about Eve”