Wish Quotes - Page 13

The more wishes you make, the more magnificent Fantasia will become.

It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

We don't go to Sabbath meetings to be entertained or even solely to be instructed. We go to worship the Lord. It is an individual responsibility, and regardless of what is said from the pulpit, if one wishes to worship the Lord in spirit and truth, he may do so by attending his meetings, partaking of the sacrament, and contemplating the beauties of the gospel If the service is a failure to you, you have failed. No one can worship for you. You must do your own waiting upon the Lord.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy

I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn't get better. YOU get better.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.

My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

Imagine that the world is a circle, that God is the center, and that the radii are the different ways human beings live. When those who wish to come closer to God walk towards the center of the circle, they come closer to one another at the same time as to God. The closer they come to God, the closer they come to one another. And the closer they come to one another, the closer they come to God.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.

What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

If there is someone in need whom you wish to help, whether the initiative came from him or from you, do no more than he expects of you, not what you might personally wish to do. If you overstep the mark, you will not deserve thanks, but blame from him and others and you will attract hostility, not friendship.

Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.

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.

To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

I wish I'd known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.