Wish You Quotes - Page 13

I'm soooo happy you're my Dad
And soooo I want to say
I love you, Dad, and wish you
A sooo very best birthday

John Walter Bratton

Dad, Love You, Wish

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A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.

Jerry Smith

Dog, Men, Wish

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Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see out. They move around in smaller boxes, painted different colours, with wheels on the corners. They need this box-culture because each person thinks of herself and himself as locked in a box called a 'body,' arms and legs, fingers to move pencils and tools, languages because they've forgotten how to communicate, eyes because they've forgotten how to see. Odd little planet. Wish you were here. Home soon.

Richard Bach

Moving, Rain, Home

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Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.

P. J. O'Rourke

Majority Rule, Cynical, Democracy

P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd

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They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.

Howard K. Smith

War, Issues, Wish

"Newscaster Howard K. Smith dies at 87". www.cnn.com. February 18, 2002.

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Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An aching hollowness that food can't cure. You know. You've felt it yourself, I bet. You hurt all the time, you're restless, you can't think straight, you sort of wish you were dead but what you really want is for everything to be the same as it was when you were still with her.. or him

Richard Laymon

Hurt, Heart, Thinking

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Now I'm a symbol of what to be and how hard to work. I have heads of major labels say, "I wish you could teach our artists how to do it." At one point I was the punching bag of what not to be, and now I'm the model of what to be.

Kenny Chesney

Artist, Wish, Bags

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And once again we wish you All joyous things and more A day that's filled with happiness And memories to store.

Janet Horne

Birthday, Memories, Wish

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Mark (McGwire), you know I love you. It's been unbelievable. I wish you could be here with me today. I know you are watching me and I know you have the same feelings for me as I have for you in my heart.

Sammy Sosa

Love You, Heart, Feelings

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Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

Ransom Riggs

Climbing, Finding Yourself, Wish

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A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

Hermione Gingold

Funny, Life, Loss

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I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.

Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

Love, Heart, People

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Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd
They hardly know you, or if one remains
To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.

John Armstrong

Heaven, Wish, Wells

John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.56

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Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.

Anne Sexton

Expression, Wish, Letters

Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.

Augustus William Hare

Morning, Wish, Enough

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Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.

Amy Sedaris

Self Esteem, People, Wish

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Try saying this silently to everyone and everything you see for thirty days and see what happens to your own soul: I wish you happiness now and whatever will bring happiness to you in the future.

Joan D. Chittister

Soul, Wish, Trying

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And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified.

J. G. Holland

Death, Clouds, Light

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 185, 1895.

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Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

Randy Pausch

Book, Self, People

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It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Wish, Together

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I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

Tamora Pierce

Fall, Tired, Wish

Tamora Pierce (2009). “Alanna: The First Adventure”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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Sometimes I think you'll be fine by yourself Cause a dream is a wish you make all alone; It's easy to feel like you don't need help, But it's harder to walk on your own.

Demi Lovato

Dream, Thinking, Wish

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People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."

Bill Cosby

Graduation, Mean, People

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Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

Life And Love, Skills, Challenges

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Some people are allergic to your success. Such people...when you smile...they cry, and wish you were dead.

Michael Bassey

People, Wish, Cry

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