Quotation Explorer - 'Wish'

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time. - George Carlin

I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again.

Wishes don't bring riches; work make things work. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate. - Franz Kafka

Be jealous of fellow men, but of those men who are pious - your fellow men who are honest, sincere and loyal with their friends, family and teachings of their Creator. See everyone as equal and wish no harm on anyone - who are we to judge each other when we are being judged by our Creator. - Mizan Chaudhury

Ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders - Jewish Proverb

Then I looked at myself in the mirror. I was proud of myself, of my entire life, of everything I have done. It was the BEST feeling... I didn't want to leave that place. I wish I never woke up. - Benjamin Breedlove

If you wish to see God; look people in the eye, listen to them, and see how they treat other people. - stacy snapp killian: StacyK

A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come. - Fela Durotoye

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving

You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well. - John Scalzi

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate. - Brigham Young

I walk along an ever fading line between jaded and wishful thinking. - Sara Secora

You can have your wish in the sacred time. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you wish, you may. If you want, you can. If you are determined, you will. - Vinita Kinra

You don't die of a broken heart, you only wish you did.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better. - Jim Rohn

I wish I had done everything on earth with you - F. Scott Fitzgerald

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. - Khaled Hosseini

You don't win by wishing for your competitor or enemy to be weak and broke; you win when you build yourself to be strong and to do the winning job right - Hisham Fawzi

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. - Erica Jong

I wish I had a brush that could paint the whole sky and turn every morning into night. I wish I could always sleep next to you in the never ending night and hold your hand, watching the reflection of all the stars in your eyes, while you smile and watch them in the sky with wonder. - Akshay Vasu

I wish I was a tree so I could reproduce asexually. - Sam R. August

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

Utakapofika mwisho wa njia, geuka. Huo ndiyo mwanzo wa njia nyingine. - Enock Maregesi

Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true. - Walt Disney Company

Beauty is wishing for loneliness without any regret and complains. - M.F. Moonzajer

Anyone who wishes to destroy humanity's past, desires to destroy its future. - Mario J. Lucero

I wish you a vivacious day of love, laughter, and joy. Have an awesome birthday! - Debasish Mridha

I wish I loved the Human Race;I wish I loved its silly face;I wish I liked the way it walks;I wish I liked the way it talks;And when I’m introduced to one,I wish I thought What Jolly Fun! - Walter Alexander Raleigh

Some people say the rain with no purpose and others say with memories and wishes - Tagor Manroo

Let us not look at the talents we wish we had or pine away for the gifts that are not ours but instead do the best we can with what we have. - B.J. Richardson

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens. - Woodrow Wilson

The sky is so blue,I wish your day is bubble with happiness and sun shining in everything you do. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun

There is nothing so cunning as tangled deception. If you wish to seek out the truth, first uncover the lies that surround the illusion... - Virginia Alison

That all is as thinking makes it so – and you control your thinking. So remove your judgements whenever you wish and then there is calm - as the sailor rounding the cape finds smooth water and the welcome of a waveless bay. - Marcus Aurelius

The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition. It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us. - Ezra Taft Benson

He says "You are my property" and I feel relieved. After all, no one wishes to shatter what he owns. - Malak El Halabi

Being a blesséd writer is a cursed attribute, when you wish to no longer be encompassed by someone and yet you are surrounded by loose leaf papers filled with the sound of his voice. - Elizabeth Brooks

I wish we'd be able to deliver our message at the global level on the need to recognize the past genocides in order to prevent new ones. Our message of peace and justice will hopefully reach every corner of the world. - Widad Akreyi

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago. - William Hazlitt

The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free. - Michel Templet

Every man is a chauvinist, however much he wishes to be otherwise. - Robyn Donald

Wish we have a gadget within everyone's budget to let the people know as what actually one thinks in own mind while wishing others the heartiest greetings on the special or any day. - Anuj Somany

I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them. - Nina LaCour

So many wish for magic so many beg for fame, but if you could manifest anything you want life would be a boring game. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Every wheel wish to be the wheel of a car, and not of just another vehicle. - Amit Kalantri

Life is all about what you wish yourself. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

If you are a dreamer come inIf you are a dreamer a wisher a liarA hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyerIf youre a pretender com sit by my fireFor we have some flax golden tales to spinCome in! Come in! - Shel Silverstein

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Men generally believe what they wish.

Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created. - Amit Kalantri

It is called as ‘discharge’ (karma) when one has to do it compulsorily and against his wishes. - Dada Bhagwan

When my prayers are answered, I am happy because it was my wish. When my prayers are not answered, I am even more happy because that was gods wish. - Ali ibn Abi Talib

Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets. - Unknown

Reading books is like your own emotional and wishful life that you could see yourself living. - Sarah Johnson

Yes. And I’m rich now when I think about it. I own myself, and I’m worth eight hundred dollars. I wish I had the money. Then I wouldn’t ever want anything else - Mark Twain

If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert. - Palle Oswald

There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one. - Frances Clark

Be careful what you wish for cause you just might get it. - Nicole Scherzinger

I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"! - Walter Alexander Raleigh

When in prayer, there is no need to implore, beg or repeat. You have been heard, and your wishes will be granted perfectly at the right time. Relax, be patient and do not fret. - Pooja Ruprell

We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures. - Don DeLillo

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of. - Mark Twain

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. - Judy Garland

I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist] - Samuel Johnson

There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.

I started creating;Myself From The Inside Out & My God I WishIHadDoneItSooner. - Nikki Rowe

Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choice to make a difference in your life at any time you wish. - Auliq Ice

The women cried with one another, and it didn't seem to matter whether you were Jewish or Christian, you just mourned. - Harry Bernstein

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. - Hubert H. Humphrey

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Suppose that we could close our eyes today and see the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow, we would have never wished to open our eyes again for the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow never ends! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I wish that people would stop destroying other people just because they were once destroyed. - Karen Salmansohn

I wish for a life with love and never ending dream. - Debasish Mridha

You are brighter than the sun, prettier than a fresh flower, and sweeter than any chocolate. Your songs are always humming in my heart. I wish you a sweet sweetest day. - Debasish Mridha

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good. - Jewish Proverb

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were. - W. H. Auden

You can be all that you wish and desire to be.Take the challenge and pursue your most cherished dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path. You know where you’re going, and each word you write gets you a step closer. - M. Kirin

Expression is saying what you wish to say, Impression is saying what others wish to hear. - Krishna Saagar

A year from now you may wish you had started today. - Karen Lamb

I don't hold Travis anymore, of course- not to read to him, or for any other reason, either. I wish I'd known that the last time was going to be the last time. - Elizabeth Berg

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. - Benjamin Franklin

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. - Oriental Proverb

Woody Allen once said that ‘I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.’ This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life! - Mehmet Murat ildan

You've captured my flag but I captured your imagination. It's true you regulate what I grow, regulate what i know, and to pray or to play I got to pay you a fee, pero we both know that you wish you could dance like me. - Vincent Torres

My only wish is to be buried with my books. - Nikita Dudani

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. - John Adams

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. - Samuel Jackson

While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane. - Shaun David Hutchinson

I’m just being me… Success is more than just a wish or desire; it’s a behavior. A byproduct of living this way is that I consistently draw the envy of haters while also disappointing those who have bet against me. But that’s just me… Unapologetically driven. - Steve Maraboli

I wish for magic this season,laughter and fun.I wish for mistletoe kisses-those sparkly ones. - Cheri Bauer

Courtesy: Wishes not to be loved, but to be lovely; Not to be benefitted, but to be a benevolence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine - Taylor Swift

Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes. - Gary Hopkins

It's awkward how some people refuse to be humans regarding their behaviours! Isn't that against God's will for he created them as humans? And yet, they at night hold hands up and ask God for forgiveness and to grant them their wishes; when he created animals sinless. - Mustafa SULTAN

Either I can go back to my childhood or my childhood can come forth to me. This is what I'm desperately wishes... - Hira Shahid Kazim

Southern gentleman, he said aside to him in Arabic. Do you wish for me to continue this for you?Caine’s temper shifted to a low simmer in his chest. Your way takes too long.Ma’aleyk, and your way hurts my ears, he argued. - V.S. Carnes

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. - Dodie Smith

If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage. - Brigham Young

When something bad happens there's no point in wishing it had not happened. The only option is to minimize the damage

Every prayer is a wish fulfilled in due time. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish for you a more difficult life, somewhere in the complicated center, where the courage of your convictions blends with humility and respect for others. - Kenneth Patrick Ruscio

A WISHSometimes I wish that he will liveand I will see him.But mostly I wish that he will die, and take my memories with him. - Coco J. Ginger

As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are. - Claire Keegan

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. 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.

I wish to offer the world more than just beauty and plastic moments. I wish to offer the world depth, conversation, poetry and wisdom. I hope you do not deny me when I open these doors. - Maria Elena

Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed. - Stephen Richards

We can't rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what we imagine or wish for. It's not the same thing. - M L Stedman

A mother's love, it knows no end. It begins with a dream, with a silent wish, and it never ever ends. - Kelly DeBie

How do you wish to live in lifetime existence; envying, hating and loving? It is better to live life loving - Lailah Gifty Akita

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. - Blaise Pascal

Success is the number one wish for everyone wishing to prosper. - Auliq Ice

I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again. - William Shakespeare

I wish there were strict laws to stop people from corrupting other people's mind with their negativity thus influencing them to form biased opinion of someone, some situation or overall way of living. - Arti Honrao

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth. - Wole Soyinks

Life is funny, when you are young you want to be older and those that are older wish to be younger. - Karon Waddell

I understand you. I know you love me. I wish you were there. - Auliq Ice

There is a whisper of light if you can hear Louder than sound of darknessyou never fear Numb sky’s muteness leaves you hard of hearingSenses wish to fly feelings disappearing - Munia Khan

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart. - Mortimer J. Adler

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. - Audrey Hepburn

The whole thing could have been uncomfortable if all your wishes were to be drowned in to the sea or passed through a heart of a lion that shed not the innocent blood. - Auliq Ice

As hurt get burning in our heart, I wish there will be doctor that can scan our heart and tell us what he/she found. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun

For if you do not wish to be ‘just a number’ then do not measure yourself accordingly. Bank statements and scales are instruments employed by society that confine you to a limited summation of yourself – born is the human void. - Nicole Bonomi

The human mind is a brilliant thing. Each person is capable of so much more than they give themselves credit for. I am only one mind amongst billions, though I still wish for my voice to be heard. - Danielle Taylor

Jewish vampires: We turn into cats not bats bwaaahaha - Tasha Turner

Life should never happen to you, but you should hold the power over life, with what kind of experience you wish to have, without any internal and external pressure. - Roshan Sharma

My wishes before I die, to fulfill my mission on earth; The writing of my life stories to inspired present and future generations. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Should you wish to pursue the infinity of truth, you must make yourself humble as ashes and vigorous as the wind. - Abhijit Naskar

في الركن منسيا ♥ فلا أحد يهين مزاجك الصافي ، ولا أحد يفكر باغتيالك ، كم انت منسي وحر في خيالك . ♥♥ - Mahmoud Darwish-محمود درويش

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom - Jim Rohn

Mind is absolutely competent to harvest anything, it is up to us what we wish to produce!! Illusion, Ignorance or Awareness. - Aditya Ajmera

A mother understands what a child does not say. - Jewish Proverb

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato

Isn't it amazing that, historically, the "Prince of Peace" has most often been introduced to new cultures through extreme violence? European and American colonialists bring this disparity to light in a way that makes me wish that forced conversion didn't work so extraordinarily well. - David G. McAfee

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong - William Shakespeare

We need a backbone, not a wishbone. - Joyce Meyer

Not everyone around you are your friends or well wishers, Just be conscious. - Mohith Agadi

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. - George Eliot

I wish you all the joy that you can wish. - William Shakespeare

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way. - Gordon Atkinson

To all what we have not tried, we would never wish to try if we knew that we would fail. - Auliq Ice

Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. - Gallagher

do what wish to - qaiser

With your own wish and desires, never accept alternative offered chances, only stand strong to making your own choice into reality. You will stand a chance to be what you wish to be with your own words. - Auliq Ice

f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen. - Seneca

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's. - Ezra Taft Benson

As I was walking up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away. - Hughes Mearns

Only one wish I have, and that is to die a happy man. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

if you hate someone..wish he love someone. - Mohamed Saad

If you look at the world with eyes that wish to learn, you will see lessons everywhere. - Akiroq Brost

I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live... More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile. - Robert A. Ward

Jewish Learning Is Living! - Sipporah Joseph

I wish you couldn't figure me out, but you'd always want to know what I was about - Kate Nash

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. - Aristotle

When we give up the chase, we give up our wishing. - Stephen Richards

When you're young you think you know it all, when you're old you wish you could remember it all. - T.A. Uner

Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy. - Amit Kalantri

I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you. - Kamand Kojouri

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail --- none of which is easy.

Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. - Theodore Roosevelt

People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions. - Amit Kalantri

I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to… to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games. - Suzanne Collins

AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. - Anatole France

First mend yourself, and then mend others. - Jewish Proverb

I wish if I could fulfill the expectations of others. Life is unpredictable and there is no more humanity - Avinash Advani

Don't live in a town where there are no doctors. - Jewish Proverb

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here. - Steven Wright

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. - Samuel Johnson

If I do depart this world out here, let it be known that I went out grinning will you, and loving it. LOVING IT.Steve, are you listening ? I FEEL GREAT. Life’s so joyous, so sad, so ephemeral, so crazy, so meaningless, so goddamn funny. This is paradise, and I wish I could give you some. - Robyn Davidson

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. - Confucius

& may you shine on in the sky with diamonds & dreams...do it for the suit behind the platform, who only wished he were free.have strength in freedom. - L V HALL

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. - Robert A. Heinlein

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they’d never happened. - Gregory David Roberts

The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self. - Jonathan Franzen

My heart aches. I wish it was me. If I can relieve the pain, I could probably handle it much better. I know I could, but to witness someone you love suffer is the most painful punishment. Love is a soothing balm for dying spirit. - Nikki Firefly

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. - Franz Kafka

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. - Edith Sitwell

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.""I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think. - Jane Austen

When you aim for the stars even if you fail you’ll be a falling star, and that’s still wish-granting material. - Kevin Focke

You have always understood and accepted my most genuine, most intimate impulses and responded to them with surprising accuracy. I wish all people turned into such mirrors for each other. - Igor Eliseev

I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. - Mark Twain

A simple, sober guy who is often very shy is always relatively reliable than the people who usually wish to drive, fly or try different means to bring around oneself the crowd. - Anuj Somany

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images. - Cheri K. Erdman

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged. - Edgar Allan Poe

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. - Thomas Jefferson

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. - Stephen Jay Gould

Not to know is bad. Not to wish to know is worse. - African Proverb

We can’t continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition. - Steve Maraboli

I wish I could hold you," she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead! - Emily Brontë

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. - Friedrich Nietzsche

NO PAIN....no gain - Mhmoud darwish

Parents must try to be, or at least put forth their best efforts to be, what they wish [their] children to be. It is impossible for you to be an example of what you are not. - Joseph Fielding Smith

To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story. - Sarah Addison Allen

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly - Ulysses S. Grant

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. - Epictetus

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily be enough to make us wish we’d died in battle instead. - Agnostic Zetetic

Contemplating this suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering. - Dalai Lama XIV

She never wished for the thing what she is experiencing. It is her inner voice that became her enemy. - Durgesh Satpathy

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned. - L. Ron Hubbard

Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. - Samuel Butler

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us. - Sigmund Freud

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that! - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Most people can't understand why they want to read so much.Likeminded types understand that they wish they had more time to read. When studying famous intellects, a pattern emerges of phases of insatiable reading for several years followed by a personal transformation into great achievements. - Peter Rogers

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings. - George Orwell

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. - Yugoslav Proverb

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. - Ambrose Bierce

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

I wish I could have healed your misery, quenched your sorrow. - Ana Chapman

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I want to know the truth, undistorted by time and revision and wishes and regrets. - Dana Spiotta

Ask anyone; possibly ninety-five percent of our wishes have come true. The unfortunate part is, we all overlook that, and regret all our lives and torment ourselves for not getting the other five percent. - Love, Life, and Logic

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier self, have fallen off. He is back where he always was, where every man always is. - C.S. Lewis

A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

(Life) it was a little bit nearer than God, but no less powerful and terrible. Yes, it was something, perhaps, that one did not wish to understand because one feared it, something to which one paid tribute lest it should feel offended and seize one, body and soul. - Arthur Holitscher

I recommend happiness for you all,my wish for you, is you building wall of love,for love is thy father of happiness. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun

Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish. - Mark Twain

He looked at his watch and knew he had to get going. He wished he could spend forever staring at her, but he was not meant to have that much happiness; he never thought he deserved it. Not after spending centuries as he did. - Daniele Lanzarotta

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic. - Richard Halliburton

Tonight they granted at least one wish, I whispered, and I lowered my head so our lips drifted over one another. I love you Adam, no matter how lost you are…or I am…I will only ever love you. - Cassandra Giovanni

God can allow you to pass through storms and get to your success. But what the devil loves to do is to make you not to realize it that the storm is over. He wishes to keep you in condemnation even at the time you have to feel liberated. - Israelmore Ayivor

I wish to resist the temptation to kiss...By super magic animals (Song: The Temptation)A visual poem about unfulfilled love... - Super magic animals

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is young men only wish to do prestigious work - Sunday Adelaja

Knowledge may be power, but half of what I know I wish I could forget. - Carroll Bryant

Your wishes doesn't come true, because there is someone else who is wishing harder and trying harder for the same wish. - Amit Kalantri

You can have what you wish in the sacred time. - Lailah Gifty Akita

First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.But if it’s not like that, be brief in forgettingAnd after you’ve forgotten, don’t keep anything. - Victor Hugo

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? - Thomas a Kempis

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both. - Jewish Proverb

Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content. For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."- from "Dimpellumpzki - Richelle E. Goodrich

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us? - Richard Bach

Do not hold your breath for anyone,Do not wish your lungs to be still,It may delay the cracks from spreading,But eventually they will.Sometimes to keep yourself togetherYou must allow yourself to leave,Even if breaking your own heartIs what it takes to let you breathe. - Erin Hanson

We must consult our means rather than our wishes. - George Washington

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion. - Jack Steinberger

If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too. - Petar Dunov

I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. - Mark Twain

I wish I was friends with things," he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends with, and I can't bear people. - Frances Hodgson Burnett

I wish we lived in a world where we'd be able to survive off our talents not money - Jill Telford

Before you choose whom to love, take a look at yourself, choose your own word, think about how and reassess your time when you have given life to love, Know your ready or not and make sure you are not there to hurt making regrets on your door and paint the word I wish on your window. - Auliq Ice

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change? - William Badke

Be focused and learn what it takes to excel in your calling. Be patient and persistent in your drive to succeed. Be ready to pay the price of success because wealth without sweat is wishful thinking. Never give up on your dreams so you don’t lose what can actually bring you true success. - Sesan Kareem

I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for which I believe I have sacrificed my life. - Thomas Drummond

I Wish This To Never End. - Chris Mentillo

Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you're poor. Look! Everybody's poor, i discovered it when i realized that its not everything that President Barrack Obama has. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say. - Michelle M. Pillow

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground. - Alexander Pope

My Dad once told me: you will retire only in your grave! ; I wish he is alive to ask him when I will retire searching for my grave! - Hisham Fawzi

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house. - Jewish Proverb

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

A sad lesson that was mine to learn is that you can't lose what was never truly yours. Nor can you hold to things that simply do not wish to be held. - Trevor Driggers

I wish all the dead ideas would stay dead. - Marty Rubin

It’s not enough to wish, dream, hope. Even children know this. We must set sail into the sea of uncertainty. We must meet fear face-to-face. We must take our dreams as maps for a greater journey. Dreams, to come true, need a good story. So go live one. - Vironika Tugaleva

I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgmental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people. - John Barrowman

I wish i were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart. - Julia L. Roberts

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. - C.S. Lewis

When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential. - Lionel Suggs

Be you wise and never sad,You will get your lovely lad.Never serious be, nor true,And your wish will come to you--And if that makes you happy, kid,You'll be the first it ever did. - Dorothy Parker

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. - Thomas a Kempis

My Muse sits forlornShe wishes she had not been bornShe sits in the coldNo word she says is ever told. - Stevie Smith

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it’s more important to learn to work with what you’ve got, under the circumstances you’ve been given, than wishing for different ones. - Charlotte Eriksson

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act - Plato

If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists. - Jewish Proverb

They said, "You'll never find someone like me again!" I thanked them for wishing me well. - Steve Maraboli

I fell for you.You fell for me.Our friendship was just meant to be.I asked if you loved me, and you said you did.The next day you said that you wish you never did.I fell apart that very day, begging you to stay.You said no and pushed me away.Now this very day im glad you didnt stay - Emma Taylor

Wishful thinking and voluntary daydreaming can occasionally make dreams come true. Unrealistic projects, improbable ventures and unfeasible missions can sometimes be achieved through 'conscious dreaming'. At times, dreams can be an inspiration and generate creative reflections.(<"Lost dreams") - Erik Pevernagie

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought. - James M. Cain

If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth. - Thomas à Kempis

No matter what your wishes, they are not crazy so long as they are not crazy to you! - Stephen Richards

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it."[Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2] - David Foster Wallace

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mwisho wa sura si mwisho wa kitabu. Fungua ukurasa mwingine. - Enock Maregesi

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. - Christopher Marlowe

....With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why couldn’t anyone do anything he or she wished, given the tools and the time. - Walker Percy

Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many. - Randy Pausch

If you have a strong wish to change than no one can stop you for achieving your destinations.. - Aditya Pandya

There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. - Kurt Cobain

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better. - Thurgood Marshall

Sweet n SourHere I am Wishing you Luckin Every aspect of lifeThis Ugadi (Gudi Padwa) and always to All of You - krvishal

Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr. - Marc Cooper

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had. - Marshall B. Rosenberg

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors. - Voltaire

I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote. - Steven Wright

If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil? - Ayn Rand

Listen with an open mind, gather all the incoming information, both verbal and non-verbal and be careful not to ignore things you don’t wish to hear. Don’t make assumptions or jump to conclusions. The punchline usually comes at the end! - Graham Speechley

Courage was something John Reckless only ever wished he had. Courage was not a given; it was acquired, earned. You had to take the difficult paths, and John had always picked the easy ones. - Cornelia Funke

Though never as complex as we fear, life is also never as simple as we might wish - fairytales slashed vol. 3

Depend upon it, he who wishes to win the prize must come on the principle that two and two make four. - Cardinal Wiseman

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes. - Robert E. Lee

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses. - Stephen King

Success starts with a Wish, gets strengthened by Belief and ends with Achievement DREAM -BELIEVE-WORK-Achieve - Masood Sayed

It is customary for those who wish to have the most beautiful ones to endeavourer to offer them gifts of those things which they hold most precious in order to win their hearts. - Auliq Ice

What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching. - Ivan Pavlov

As you teach, you learn. - Jewish Proverb

We are all materialistic. There are different levels of materialism! Some aspire to a fancy car, others only wish to go to bed at night with a full stomach. - D.J. Jouett

As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's albatross. - Patrick White

If wishes were horses, I'd need a very big stable. - Greg Curtis

Work will win when wishy-washy wishing won't. - Thomas S. Monson

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. - Cicero

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. - James M. Barrie

Wishing you a bucket of love and joy today and always. - Debasish Mridha

Wish not so much to live long as to live well. - Benjamin Franklin

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live. - Alexandre Dumas

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough. - Luhraw

There are those who wish to read everything. Do not try to do this. Let it> alone. The number of books is infinite, and you cannot follow> infinity...For where there is no end, there can be no rest; where there is> no rest, there can be no peace; and where there is no peace, God cannot> dwell. - Hugh of St. Victor

When I see a dancing butterfly, When I see a half blooming flower,Their eager wish to make this world happy,My mind dances with joy,My soul emerges in happiness. - Debasish Mridha

Mistakes are like bad loves; the more you learn from them the more you wish they'd never happened. - Gregory David Roberts

I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see. - Shandy L. Kurth

I wish i could feed my soul just like i feed my hunger. - Futty-fuze

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. - Tom Bissell

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid. - Elbert Hubbard

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. - H.L. Mencken

Don’t just wish and dream—take action to make it happen. - Debasish Mridha

Your abilities are not enough to fulfill your wishes, so work considering your wishes and not your abilities. - Amit Kalantri

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. - John Henry Cardinal Newman

All he did all afternoon was calculate again and again how many hours of study time he was losing. Thinking about it now, he felt stupid, as we all do when we remember all the time we waste wishing we were somewhere else. - Paolo Giordano

I wish I had more breaks in life, rather than life breaking me. - Anthony Liccione

The day you left, it felt like I lost a diary in which I had been writing for so long. Now all that memories flashes in bits and pieces inside my head always and makes me wish that I could sit back and read it all over again. - Akshay Vasu

Okay, I said. As long as I've got you here, we're going to use and appreciate this present moment. Because I wish, and I've wished a thousand times since you went, that we'd known it was the present, and that we were living in it. - Ali Smith

Desires and wishes don’t lead to success. Plans and efforts do. Create a vision, chalk out an action plan, put in your best efforts and give yourself a headstart in achieving your dreams. - Roopleen

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good. - Kohta Hirano

In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free? - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. - Jean Kerr

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong. - Robert Henri

Sometimes what we don't wish for is more powerful than what we do. - Tis the Season

If you wish to live in harmony, you must respect every person and, in non-essential matters, yield! - J.P. Vaswani

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. - Demosthenes

Gregory: "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." Gregory: "The dog did nothing in the night-time." Holmes: "That was the curious incident." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes. - Anthony Liccione

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. - David Attenborough

I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. - Robert Louis Stevenson

I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew. - Libba Bray

Only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our lives is decided within us; our paths may seem to diverge from our wishes in a confused and pointless way, but in the end the way always leads us to our invisible destination. - Zweig, Stefan

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either. - Jewish Proverb

No wise man ever wished to be younger. - Jonathan Swift

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. - Anaïs Nin

If not for fear, sin would be sweet. - Jewish Proverb

Men love pleasure, but women wish for purposeful promise. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Love yourself enough to give what matters every chance of working by communicating as well as you possibly can, and trying for as long as you wish. - Jay Woodman

Benjy's greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared for the weak and the weak gave their respect without being coerced. He longed for balance, order, right and pleasure. - André Alexis

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them. - Plutarch

The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. - Dodie Smith

Every seed wants to die in the soil! Every umbrella wants to live in a perpetually rainy world! Every mirror wants to see its own face in another mirror! Everything in this universe has dreams they wish to realise! - Mehmet Murat ildan

By some tear in the wish fabric, or the casting of a prayer, or the falling of some lonely star, the enchanted garden was not lost to me, but lost in me. - Ansul Noor

I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others. - Jawaharlal Nehru

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: I wish no gifts, only presence. - Author Unknown

This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. - Bertrand Russell

All I know is that right now I wanna rip your clothes off right here in the middle of this hall and throw you in one of these classrooms and kiss every square inch of your body, while a bunch of people who drive minivans listen wishing they were us. - vampire diaries

Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. - Ambrose Bierce

A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Those who wish to sing always find a song. - Swedish Proverb

I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see. - Norman Lewis

Two friends raised their heads up to the sky on a dark evening.-Look at the stars.--Let us make a wish.They each took a moment of silence.-What did you wish for?--For you to have peace with your wish. - J.R. Rim

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true! - Dave Barry

If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance. - Amit Kalantri

In general, silence often reflects ambiguity on the part of the listener as the observer wishes to understand the other's experience. - Sandra Leanne Bosacki

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity. - Robert F. Kennedy

I wish R.I.P meant Return If Possible... - A Friend of Yours

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Later," Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die. - James S.A. Corey

God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness. - Nikolai A. Berdyaev

Twinkle twinkle..... I am that star you wished upon tonight.....loves rays.... ultra violet embers ignite - Bertice Hopkins

There was nothing physical she could do to stop Mario from carrying out whatever he wished. She shivered at the thought of what that sleazy, other world leftover might do should she launch an attack on him. - G.G. Collins

Unexamined thoughts, habits or action may offer some deceptive gain or pleasure but eventually it takes away something most valuable from our life ,which we have ever wished for. - Aditya Ajmera

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others in order to save them, for one cannot be a hero with needing someone to save. - Brandon Varnell

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. - Jonas Salk

Jewish vampires: Crosses & holy water won’t hurt me whatcha gonna try next? - Tasha Turner

Our mistakes would not wish for anything more, if we could just stop giving birth to them. - Munia Khan

Even more than dreams our lies reveal our secret wishes. - Marty Rubin

But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory. - John Green

When she wished for love, she wanted a perfect concoction of - respect, care and understanding. You dusted kisses, and hoped she would find all those in the debris.Love, my dear, is more mental than physical. - Saru Singhal

Violence has settled more issues in history than any other factor; and contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms. - Robert Heinlein

I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain. - A.B. Shepherd

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish. - Keith Donohue

Jewish vampires: blood can’t be kosher… can it? - Tasha Turner

The truth reveals itself in the most innocent of ways. You can lie and deceive, attempt to bury that which you wish to remain unseen. Yet the truth flourishes, rising from it's prison to stand tall for all to see. - D. Alma

If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living. - Jewish Proverb

Be as audaciousAs you wish.By all means look to the heavens. - Scott Hastie

People wish for good dreams I wish people don't dream of me. - Amit Abraham

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. - Georges Bernanos

Everyone wants to see a falling star and make all their wishes come true. My wish is to see only you, because you are the only star in my life. - Karel Hrošek

Full of intrigue, tangled pasts, and raw emotions, [Gambling On A Secret by Sara Walter Ellwood] is guaranteed to keep you turning pages from start to finish and then wishing for one more chapter! - Carolyn Brown

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. - Jack Welch

The world of light and starry grace;within your mind I live to trace.Your thought’s speed in thunder’s glory,lightening my being with dream’s story.I embrace the tree carrying your nameYour unspoken wish : the heart of fame. - Munia Khan

CONVENT, n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness. - Ambrose Bierce

...we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet's guest, his world was his own kingdom, reached, as one of the poems told us, through the 'Ring of Words'... - Janet Frame

Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force. - Michael Bassey Johnson

One of the fascinating things about our lives - and minds - is that tend to spend years wishing and wanting others and the world around to see in us that which we ourselves do not appreciate fully. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now. - Anonymous

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. - Robert Burns

Even if you be Mendacious.. I know deep in your heart.. you don't wish to be one.. its just, you r acting so 'cos u not letting your heart flow.. and you think your Mendacious actions will make situations convenient to me..!! - Abhijeet Sawant

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others, for one cannot be a hero with needing someone to save. - Brandon Varnell

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy

Self-confidence is usually little more than wishful thinking in a thigh-high pair of Come F*ck Me boots. - Alistair Cross

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity. - Chris Rock

None of you will have faith till he wishes for his (Muslim) brother what he likes for himself - Richard Spinos

God wishes to see people happy. - shivani lal

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do. - Vironika Tugaleva

I wish my nose would blow me for once. - Brian Celio

Anyone that does not wish or desire to stretch himself will get nowhere in this life. That is just the way life is. - Sunday Adelaja

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The paradox of life; I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the gray hair. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn’t that they keep lying to you; it’s that you keep believing them. - Steve Maraboli

Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Change the world, I know I won’t,Enthralling as always I hope it remains,A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.But my only wish as I take this jaunt,Is for my words on you to impress upon,A smile, a tear or even an angry frown. - Anurag Anand

We look for our perfect partners, and we wish we can be accepted the way we are. We seek unconditional love. It is all beautiful. While doing it we can always remember that we need to accept ourselves unconditionally, as much as we wish others to accept as with no conditions. - Raphael Zernoff

LOQUACITY, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk. - Ambrose Bierce

Thy wish was father... to that thought. - William Shakespeare

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me. - William Shakespeare

Everything that you wish to know, or desire for life, exists in you. All you have to do is take your attention inward and begin your search within. - Roshan Sharma

Any nation that wishes to enjoy the fruits of development and civilization, must follow the golden rules of this scripture as a national policy and culture. - Sunday Adelaja

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. - Edgar Allan Poe

Remember! A wish is tomorrow's daughter...and a good wish should always change the future! Never the past! - K. I. Zachopoulos

The stark nakedness and simplicity of the conflict with which humanity is oppressed - that of getting angry with and wishing to hurt the very person who is most loved. - John Bowlby

I suppose that's the secret. If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were, you just have to look up. - Lauren Oliver

Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely. - Jaime Reed

You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love. By all accounts, I do wish I could steal it. But I am not that sort of man. I will wait. Forever and a day...I will wait. - Renee Vincent

If you wish to be a writer, write. - Epictetus

There is a graceless human tendency to wish upon others the ills visited upon oneself. Instead of pointing successors towards short cuts, you relish seeing them clambering through identical hoops. - Michela Wrong

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. - Jewish Proverb

The funniest thing people say to me: "I wish I had your life". Hello! I make a living writing about it. - Daniel Marques

Everything with a breath is able to create and make a change as long as there is a chance, a wish and need for. - Auliq Ice

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it. - Sophocles

The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. - John Lubbock

The difference between God an I is that everyday, I too deal with people who don't love but I have no desire to kill them or wish them to suffer for all of eternity for it - Anonymous

It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you. - Alice Hoffman

The Candle HolderBeauty is in the eye of the beholder, Your light I wish to see.I am the candle holder, reveal yourself to me. -- - Reed Abbitt Moore

When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got. - Gugu Mona

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. - Jacques Barzun

[Stieg] was describing Sweden the way it was and the way he saw the country: the scandals, the oppression of women, the friends he cherished and wished to honor. - Eva Gabrielsson

Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others, for one cannot be a hero without needing someone to save. - Brandon Varnell

Negativity only breeds more negativity. I wish to not allow it to enter my heart and not for it to take harbour. It may make itself a home and never leave. - Aisha Mirza

Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it and not waste any energy on wanting it to be different. - David W. Earle

Mungu ni mwandishi wa hadithi ya maisha yangu na ndiye anayeandika ukurasa wa mwisho. - Enock Maregesi

I wish to get you out of my veins, but you are my third skin; I can't rub you off. - Sheeba Shamsudeen

Life is Most Important in Life is The Most important Truth in Life. Any word, thought, or action that disagrees must be a lie. - David Wishengrad

We injure ourselves by wishing; continous inaction cripples the soul. - Paul Bamikole

As for my feelings toward 'Over the Rainbow,' it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all my dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it. - Judy Garland

If you wish to be happy, listen to your heart. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish for all of us the blindness of love that makes us see no faults in the other. - Kamand Kojouri

Christians who say we are not to judge others are only partially correct! Judging rightly is what Jesus commands. Love and truth are The Commanded Conjoined Twins for Jesus Followers; they must never be separated if we wish to obey Jesus’ Platinum Rule! - Gary Patton

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. - Stephen Chbosky

Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. - Victor Hugo

How I wished after all the hardships, you will immediately attain your reward. But it's not that easy. You need to wait for the right time to come in your life. Always bear in mind that diligence is nothing without perseverance. - Joe Mari Fadrigalan

Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn't get better. You get better. - Joan Rivers

Listening and showing you are there for someone is often more important than trying to find a "fix" for a problem. I wish there were more people who practice this. - Auliq Ice

A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains. - Maximilien de Robespierre

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences. - Alexander Woollcott

All POOR wish to become RICH,BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR. - shaikh mustafa

My most educated analysis, with all means of science and technology in mind, is that it’s magic, Alex said. There’s no other possible explanation! -Alex Bailey, The Land of Stories; The Wishing Spell - Chris Colfer The Land of Stories

I'll keep it short and sweet -- Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Matt Groening

God the Father and the Son don’t wish you to remain blind. It is men that put blindness upon other people for the purpose of control and manipulation. - Sunday Adelaja

But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable. - Penelope Fitzgerald

Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. - Sophocles

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. - James M. Barrie

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others in order to save them, for one cannot be a hero without needing someone to save. - Brandon Varnell

If man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Wishers were ever fools. - William Shakespeare

One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher, Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;For all such vain wishes in him were preventedBy a fortunate habit of being contented. - Jane Taylor

I hope you take the courage to pursue your dreams. I wish that you will have the determination to start the best day of your life everyday. - Diana Rose Morcilla

أني اجدد يوما مضى لأحبك يوما و أمضي - Mahmoud Darwish-محمود درويش

Worries go down better with soup than without. - Jewish Proverb

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell

Most people think that making a living from books is fun or joyful, but there's much more to it than what the eyes can see, and I wish I had more time for more profitable and also joyful activities. - Robin Sacredfire

That's the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they're far wiser than the elder ones could ever be. - Gemma Burgess

I am familiar with the phrase, ‘needle in a haystack’ and I think I understand its meaning more than I wish to. - David Sadler

We'd rather have a grand spectacle of retribution of the 'wicked', than their silent walk towards redemption that our wishes questions the depth and nature of our love and hearts. - Ufuoma Apoki

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures. - Frank Herbert

I've been toldThat it's not enough toWish for dreams, that IHave to work themInto reality. - Jordan Hoechlin

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others. - Ludwig van Beethoven

I wish to be a product not a consumer. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Create the job, we wish to have. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Sitting makes us think of standingOur current stance keeps on demanding We wish to fly without the wings Puppets move before pulling the strings - Munia Khan

Conservative. noun. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. - Ambrose Bierce

I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, or the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit, but maybe the best any of us can do is not quit. Play the hand we've been given and accessorize the outfit we've got. - Allan Heinberg

If you aren't any religion, how will you know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center? - Judy Blume

sometimes I wish I would just disappear into thin air, leave the pain and the misery of this cold hearted world,I wonder who would miss me if anyone would even show a little sympathy to my family, probably no one I was just a little no one anyways. - kashmir foley

She wasn't entirely sure how she felt, All she knew was that he entered her world And she felt more alive than she had before, secretly wishing he was feeling the same. - Nikki Rowe

If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position - Radhe Maa

Wishes and wants do not transform a person; actions and reactions do so! Show the world your plans by the actions you take progressively and consistently. - Israelmore Ayivor

Feeling like I have thorns on my body everywhere, That's by nobody want to stay in my life, They just come and leave me by saying you are everything I can wish for but they need time to be sure and after that they disappear and never come back !! - Paul karan

What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. - Colette

Those that would attain wisdom, prefer the empty stadium.Those who wish to appear wise,prefer it full. - Tom Althouse

Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars. - Gustave Flaubert

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence. - Bertrand Russell

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it. - Kohta Hirano

The flame of the inn is dim tonight,Too many vacant chairs.The sun has lost too much of its light,Too many songs have taken flight,Too many ghosts on the stairs.Charon, here's to you as man against man,I wish I could pick 'em the way you can! - Grantland Rice

I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.I am a writer. - Richelle E. Goodrich

You are not expected to know, but you are expected to wish to know. - Tom Brokaw

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Those whistles sing bewitchment: railways are irresistible bazaars... Anything is possible on a train... - Paul Theroux

What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong? - Chuck Austen

Life is an illusion of the reality which we want or wish - Saurabh Mathur

Wish for what you want. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A nation of philosophers [might have no need for the steadiness of venerable institutions], but a nation of philosophers is as little to be expected as the philosophical race of kings wished for by Plato. - Madison, James

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting. - Unknown

Follow the rules or don't follow them: whatever you wish. - Marty Rubin

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise. - Richelle E. Goodrich

When Mandela passed away, the long walk to freedom will be longer and harder. I wish with my tears that every parent tell about Mandela to their children, shall their children grow up firmly and with faith. - Professor Pezhman Mosleh

We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest. - Rosalind Franklin

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure. - George Orwell

May the Blessingof Allah keep yoursHeart and HomeHappy and Joyous!!to get Bright Futurewish U Happy New Year !!! - Baset

Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Wishful thinking is more valuable to an artist than critical thinking. - Marty Rubin

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau

As he thinks in his heart, so he is. - Jewish Proverb

His mother's words faded to myth, concocted by a gentle soul to delight the imagination of a boy.Until one day, they were no longer a myth. One day, he would wish he had never heard them at all because they spelled his happiness--and his eternal sorrow. - Natalia Marx

The sky has turned blue for my son. It is never going to be pink. I wish the sky color does not discriminate us. - Jayashan Adhikari

Well we both know there're some men who wish it was not women who came to tell that Jesus was risen. hehehe - Mary Tornyenyor

No matter how your dreams are impossible if you keep in dreaming, your wishes will come true. - Thea Marielle Santos

To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others. - Thomas Jefferson

Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics. - Bertrand Russell

And there you sit.My eyes burning a hole on the side of your face while the stars are being captured in your eyes from the prolonged, there's-plenty-of-time, full attention you're giving each one.And there you sit.And I'm wishing I could give you every ounce of what you give the stars. - Taylor Patton

If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change" ~Oromis to eragon ,Brisingr~618 - Christopher Paolini

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be. - Jorge Ramos

I share my happiness and sorrowCos I know for once there will be no tomorrowIf I wish to live in your memoriesI too have to be there to share your worriesSpeak up to your friend, am just a call away - Prashant Balan

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds. - Jewish Proverb

Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own. - T.J. Mihaila

I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing. - Munia Khan

We want Allah to forgive us, yet we are not willing to forgive others.Desire the same that you wish for your enemy,Pray for those who harmed you with the same passion that you pray for yourself.Be willing to open heaven’s door for your enemy.The greatest compassion lies in forgiveness. - Zarina Bibi

What if you already are the person you wish you were but you just don't know it yet? - Debra Formo

You can seek out good fortune, authority (power), and even a righteous life-partner...and find them all. But when all of this is gone...which it will be eventually, I wish you Peace, which is only found through Christ our Lord. - Joe Campos

Have faith little one ‘til your hopes and your wishes come true. You must try to be brave. - The Rescuers

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. - Jonathan Swift

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. - Charles Lamb

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. - Pope John Paul II

Don't make a wish you aren't willing to come true. Don't dream a dream you aren't willing to pursue. Don't love a man you can't say, "I do". - Willowy Whisper

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life. - Erich Fromm

Faith is, believing there is still a star out there to wish on, just for you, tucked away behind dark clouds. - Anthony Liccione

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Wishes can be harmful to us when they overcome patience. - Auliq Ice

Religion serves all of us; men, women, gays, straights, blacks, whites, Americans and Indians. If it does not comply with our needs, wishes and happiness, then religion without a doubt is a plague that must be stopped. - M.F. Moonzajer

Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds - Munia Khan

If not you, then who? If not now, when? - Hillel first- century Jewish scholar

I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all the answers. - Gabriel Bá

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived. - Margaret A. Edwards

I wish Goodreads was also a dating site. - Laine

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact. - Kurt Gödel

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. - Jewish Proverb

I wish you all had one neck and that I had my hands on it. - Carl Panzram

Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'. - Alain de Botton

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't. - Ernest Hemingway

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. - Quintilian

I will always be confident in the direction of my dreams because that's the life I wish to live. - Alfusainey jallow

Sometimes you wish the world would be a better place and sometimes you wish the world was a better place. Only the great understanding of the difference of the time between the past and present moment will make it a better place. - Jammy Creamer

I’m beginning to wish I’d had you deported after the first murder! Death seems to follow you around like the plague. - Steve Robinson

Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, their lack of good fortunes or the quirks of fate. Everyone has within them the power to say, "This I am today, that I shall become tomorrow." The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds. - Louis L'Amour

Don’t wish the world demanded less of you. Rise up and exceed its standards. - A.D. Posey

Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking – with a will. . . . It is energy. We turn to an active Giver; therefore we go into action. - P.T. Forsyth

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds. - Libba Bray

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts. - Bertrand Russell

IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created. If you don't write at all you won't know how "great" that simple book can be. - Shiree McCarver

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go. - Homer

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. - Charles Darwin

Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And because I cannot, God picked up the brush of love, positioned the canvas of history and painted a manger. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I wish I could find MY books listed on GOODREADS - DODGING JOE, THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T EXPLAIN, THE BITTER GRAPES - ll available through Amazon and Createspace - - Saaskia Aark-Bennett

You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape. - G.I. Gurdjieff

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington Irving

When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters. - Ilene Beckerman

At the end of the day the only thing that stays are your words. They linger while you disappear. Hanging in the air like they're on a clothesline, oh how I wish I could let them go. - Jasmine Sandozz

My wish for us is that (in 2016) we obtain the power to be healthier, think more positively, and be more compassionate and forgiving. Hoping for a sunny year and that we can enjoy and feel the sun-rays, next to ‘just’ feeling warmer! - Irfaan Santoe

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other. - Ava Gardner

You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you! - Plato

he wished for freedom and heaven was granted to him". - -sanika ullalkar

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wishes to die. The same could be said about success. Everybody wants to achieve it but few are willing to pay the price of success. - Michael A. Contés II

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

Time flies by so fast, I wish I can go back - Donna Liu

You may be born thousands of years from now, but over the boundaries of time I am sending you my love and wishing you a joyful and wonderful life. - Debasish Mridha

I always believe that ideas are like shooting stars when you have one make it happen and not just wish. - Roberto Llamas

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson

I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it. - Lemmy Kilmister

Today is a special day for you and for the universe. Today you started your life’s journey and the universe got a precious gift and that is you. I am wishing you a day of joy to fill your life with pleasant surprises. - Debasish Mridha

Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I wish to walk and keep the ways of God - Lailah Gifty Akita

No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have. - Søren Kierkegaard

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. - Joseph Addison

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her. - W. Somerset Maugham

Sometimes things do not go the way one wanted them to go... At times like this, one would wish that one had not dreamt so much. Just hang in there... destination is just a mile away. - Hari Kumar K

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time! - Drew Barrymore

When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat. - Fulton J. Sheen

I know where I come from, where I am now and where the wish to go. - Lailah Gifty Akita

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. - Thomas Paine

A man's worst enemies can't wish on him what he can think up himself. - Yiddish Proverb

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is possible to have what you wish for. - Lailah Gifty Akita

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. - John Quincy Adams

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. - William Shakespeare

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue. - George Packer

Taking actions will fulfill your dreams and wishes, not the prayers and blessings. - Amit Kalantri

[S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed. - Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself. - Edith Sitwell

I am writing for her... for the universe to hear... but her screams have made me deaf... and my passion has blinded her… I Wish she was here... my hugs could cure her ... I am her medicine… all her fears would be removed, and the magic she would feel - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself... - Trieu Thi Trinh

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. - Abigail Adams

If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance. - W. S. Gilbert

I wished I hadn’t majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens. Maybe tomorrow the pinhole would widen and I would want to be a marine biologist. - Kat Clark

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are. - Nicholas Chamfort

I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us. - Joris-Karl Huysmans

There is no reward for wishes. - Chinedum Azuh

A vicious circle develops in which the people around you expect you to be there for them all the time and comply with their wishes. - Auliq Ice

In Damascus:poems become diaphanousThey’re neither sensualnor intellectualthey are what echo saysto echo . . . - Mahmoud Darwish-محمود درويش

If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself. - Horace

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde

ALLAH, n. The Mahometan Supreme Being, as distinguished from the Christian, Jewish, and so forth. Allah's good laws I faithfully have kept, And ever for the sins of man have wept; And sometimes kneeling in the temple I Have reverently crossed my hands and slept. Junker Barlow - Ambrose Bierce

We all do have a vision in life and we all wish to achieve something in life. We all ought to note that vision is there for everyone but, achievement is there for someone! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The Sage's Wish: Like Sun, from the East, may you continue to rise, smile and shine. - Ogwo David Emenike

If you wish to break with tradition, learn your craft well, and embrace adversity - Soke Behzad Ahmadi

I wish for you a goodnight of sleep, sweet dreams, and a smiling morning. - Debasish Mridha

One day I wish to die, but today, I wish to live. - Peprah Boasiako

Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God. - G.I. Gurdjieff

Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are. - Josh Groban

Do not allow what you long for...., prevent you from enjoying the moment. Be joyful in the present, at the appointed time your wish will be granted. - Lailah Gifty Akita