Wishes Quotes

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.

The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

She didn't leave any written instructions. She has verbally expressed her wishes to me and other people.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.

Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.