Wish Quotes - Page 118

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.

I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.

So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here...in my arms.

We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.

I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

Oh dear," said Sarah anxiously, "I do wish he wouldn't do these silly things." I'm sure we all wish that, Sarah," said Marcia sternly. "But unfortunately he has progressed rather further than the silly stage. Evil-minded-scheming stage is more what I would call it.

I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.

Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

I wish that people could love more.

Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

When the liver is diseased, the eyesight fails; when the kidneys are diseased, the hearing is adversely affected. The disease is not visible, but its effects are. Therefore, enlightened people, wishing to be free from obvious faults, first get rid of hidden faults.

But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.

Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.

I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.