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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me. (Quote by - Taye Diggs)

In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator. (Quote by - Pir Vilayat Khan)

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy. (Quote by - John Dyer)

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it. (Quote by - Wanda Sykes)

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

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. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him. (Quote by - Arnold Rothstein)

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. (Quote by - Robert Southey)

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you. (Quote by - Meg Tilly)

We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us? (Quote by - David Foster Wallace )

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back? (Quote by - Robert Wyatt)

The system adopted in the Latin American instrument proves that, although no state can obligate another to join such a zone, neither can one prevent others wishing to do so from adhering to a regime of total absence of nuclear weapons within their own territories. (Quote by - Alfonso G. Robles)

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. (Quote by - Aristotle)

Wishing of all employments is the worst. (Quote by - Edward Young)

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. (Quote by - George Eliot)

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech. (Quote by - Auberon Waugh)

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages. (Quote by - Goldwin Smith)

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect. (Quote by - Edgar Quinet)

I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength. (Quote by - Dennis Nilsen)

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away. (Quote by - Louise Brooks)

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else. (Quote by - Suzanne Farrell )

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