Wishes Quotes

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

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.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

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.