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Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence
There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.
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.
So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best!
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious.
If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?
You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.
I'm wishing every Saturday had primaries, because welcome to an amazing Sunday, where everything seems a tad bit clearer this morning.
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.
The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.
I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.
When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan
I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.
A goal is different from a wish. You may wish to be rich, but there's no responsibility for it. With a goal, it's on you to achieve it.
Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.
I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.
I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.
Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.
Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?
I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.
I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.
I wish I was sort of someone like Woody Allen who can stage everything in one long master shot, no coverage; just, you know, that's it.
You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.
The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.
If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.
Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.
I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.
I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.
I don't think any actor can be happy with their performance. There's always something you wish you would have done or said differently.
We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.
If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to that.
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.
'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it.
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.