Wish Quotes - Page 125

I wish to suggest that ample opportunity does exist for dissent, for protest, and for nonconformity. But I must also say that the right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.

If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.

Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.

As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.

By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.

If someone disturbs you... they didn't kill you, but you really feel like "I wish this guy was dead"... you know that you will not kill him yourself, but if he gets struck by a truck or by a train, you would really be happy.

The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.

When we're able to resign ourselves to the wishes that will never come true, there can be enormous energies available within us for whatever we CAN do.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however we're built, as we get into these years, some inner part of you does begin to accept the fact that you're heading towards the end, and there's a peace that comes with that.

He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.

We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

My name is Squirrelpaw, but I never thought I'd wish I was one!

Understand that Bluestar does not make this offer lightly if you wish to train with us, we will have to take you into our Clan. You must either live with us and respect our ways, or return to your Twolegplace and never come back. You cannot live with a paw in each world.

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.