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Letter "W" » wishing
«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»
Author: Auberon Waugh
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
e'en, e mail, involving, mail, proximity, specially, wishing
«?To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.?»
«Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.»
«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?»
«It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.»
«Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.»
«A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it»
«As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
abstain, abstaining, abstains, attacks, general, general rule, offer, properly, provoked, provokes, reports, report it, wishing
«If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: / Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.»
«I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.»
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