Best wish & born Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory.”

Should Said Self Humanity Wish Causes Born Holy Glory Strive Seeking Dedication Ruthlessness

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.”

Firsts Night Wish Born Land Lays Disappointment Yesterday Subtle Egypt Chill Doom Corpses One Night Glowing Starks Revive Blooming

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But unfortunately you're stuck with what you're born with.”

Writing Film Wish Born Comedy Heavy Stuck

Author:Woody Allen

“A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.”

World Wish Born Love You Brother Your Brother Love You So Much I Love You So Much Love Thoughts

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into "America" inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born.”

America Opportunity Wish Born Deserve Transformation Innovation Continents Participation Boundless Epoch Gusto Vim

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects - for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge - yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.”

Made Said Light Eye Wish Born Dark Sky Effects Color Flower Clouds Casts Noble Steadfast Pluck Abode Light Dark Dark Colors

Book:John Constable's Correspondence

Source: John Constable's Correspondence

“I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.”

Dies Wish Born Poor Wish To Die

Author:Pope Pius X

“It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.”

“Laura Alicia Deverell was born on May 10th, 1862, at precisely a quarter past one o'clock on a Thursday morning. Those interested in that pseudo-science astrology or astromancy may trace her life and character, if they wish, among the stars, where no doubt it is all written.”

Ifs May Book Character Past Wish Stars Born Morning Doubt Written Clock No Doubt Quarters Astrology Pseudo Thursday Laura

Author:Susan Ertz

“The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd, The child is born by many a pang endear'd And now the mother's ear has caught his cry; O grant the cherub to her asking eye! He comes--she clasps him. To her bosom press'd He drinks the balm of life, and drops to rest.”

Children Moments Eye Mother Wish Born Hours Cry Drink Ears Asking Presses Caught Grants Bosoms Infancy Cherubs

Author:Samuel Rogers

“I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!”

Littles Long Remember Night House Wish Born Sun Window Breaths Peeping

Author:Honorius Augustodunensis

“We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?”

People Doe Ends Dies Wish Born

Author:John Cleese

“I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity.”

“What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we think so little of ourselves, but because we think so much of ourselves. We are anxious, not that we may appear in the worst light, but that we may not appear in the best light. Anxiety is born of self-consciousness, and it is alleviated to the exact extent that we can drop consciousness of the self.”

Thinking May Littles Self Light Desire Wish Born Consciousness Worst Anxiety Limitation Nonsense Anxious Flattering Self Consciousness

Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“I wish you to become who you were born to be. To become queen.”

Wish Born Queens Wish You

Book:Heir of Fire

Source: Heir of Fire

“Yeah, if it hadn't been for me everybody'd be a lot better off--my wife and my kids and my friends.... I wish I'd never been born.I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all.”

Ifs Kids Wish Born Wife Despair My Friends Yeah My Wife Better Off Wonderful Life

Author:Frances Goodrich

“In the early '70s [the late] Ras Shorty and I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso's African rhythms, and soca was born against the wishes of the purists.”

Wish Born Creation Late Rhythm Indian Drumming Calypso Trinidadians

Author:Machel Montano

“...stand with me today and pledge to work for an America that doesn't ignore those in need and lifts up those who wish to succeed. Pledge to hold your government accountable for ignoring the suffering of so many for far too long. And pledge to do your part to build the America that we have dreamed of - where the bright light of opportunity shines on every person - an America where the family you are born into, or the color of your skin, will never control your destiny.”

“I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.”

Age Romance Wish Born Half Design Interior Design

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)

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