Wish Quotes - Page 108

To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.

I wish there had been someone there to vote no for me -Rosalie Cullen

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

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

I wish I could see outta two eyes.

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

I wish I could help you" I whisper. You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me.

Be the leader you wish you had.

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces

Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.

So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

I commit to most things I do in life, so I don't really have any serious regrets. But I'll say this: There are plenty of people that I wish I could un-meet. It's kind of an L.A. syndrome.

Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'

I'm just very body-conscious. Sometimes I'm really proud that I don't look like other pop stars. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'

"Sometimes", says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence."

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

There are a lot I'm proud of, and a lot I wish the hell I'd never written.