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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
Criticism is a surreal state, like a good drug gone bad. When it's bad you wish it would stop, and when it's good, you can't get enough.
We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.
I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.
Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.
Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.
I wish they weren't called the 'Bush tax cuts.' If they're called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.
We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.
The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.
We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.
I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.
The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes
As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what being in love is, I don't know.
Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.
My biggest fear isn't crashing this bike at 85mph and losing my skin - it's sitting in a chair at 90 and thinking 'I wish I'd done more'
I feel strongly about helping fundraise and donating to causes that help children, animals, and the environment. I wish I could do more!
Like Moscow, I wish to lay the foundation of the Chinese Republic deeply in the minds of the young generation - the workers of tomorrow.
We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.
This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that we'd ever name a car on Top Gear. I wish I hadn't said that.
O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.
My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.
That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.
This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.
You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.
I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of Jesus Christ.
Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.
I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I want to sing. Can't do it though.
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?
You should never look at somebody and say, 'I wish I had their life,' because you never really know what struggles they're going through.
[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.
I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.
The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world.
I wish every Republican wanted to impeach [Jeorge W.] Bush , but people don't agree with this. He's stating a fact about what he believes.
The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God--that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking.
I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.