Wish Quotes - Page 149

I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.

I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

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This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera on me right now'. Instead a real photographer pulls out her camera and takes the photograph.

What you get to choose today is who you are and what you wish to experience in your life. Remember, not to decide is to decide.

Truth is often uncomfortable. It is only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it. Then, truth becomes not only comforting, but inspiring.

Whatever it is that you wish to experience more of in your life, be the source of it in the life of another.

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance.

Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.

I wish his music came out of the closet and admit that it sucks.

When one cannot be sure that there are many days left, each single day becomes as important as a year, and one does not waste an hour in wishing that that hour were longer, but simply fills it, like a smaller cup, as high as it will go without spilling over.

[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say, and I wish she'd write it down.

We cannot disrespect the wishes of states.

If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it!

I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815

I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

You always think "woulda, coulda, shoulda." I wish that I had prosecuted Tot Mom, I wish I'd prosecuted OJ, and I wish I had prosecuted the JonBenet Ramsey case.

All "bad" presentations struggle to keep the audience interested. The audience squirms wishing they could escape. The audience has given the presenter an hour of their life, so they want that hour to be useful. It's disrespectful of a presenter to not show up rehearsed and prepared with information and insights that will improve the lives of the audience in some way. Presenting will do only one of two things for you: it will either diminish your credibility or yield results. Most bad presentations hurt the presenter's credibility.

I wouldn't wish my consort to suffer ennui.

I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.