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Letter "W" » wishing
«Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.»
Author: Alexander Woollcott
| Keywords:
wishing
«Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
| Keywords:
automatic, balancing, cling, cling to, competing, disturbed, economy, issues, political economy, political machine, regulated, wishing
«My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more»
«Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.»
Author: Greg Anderson
(Author)
| Keywords:
explaining, mindless, other ways, waste of energy, wasting, wasting time, wishing
«Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow»
«To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.»
«Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
exceeding, meets, surrounds, wishing
«The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Best friend
| Keywords:
best friend, wishing
«My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my own sake»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
best friend, My best friend, wishing
«Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Day
| Keywords:
neighbors, Sunday, wishing
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