Wish Quotes - Page 154

I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

So long as a person who has made mistakes . . . honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at him.

To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.

I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.

The biggest challenge of my career has been wanting to do EVERYTHING! I always say I wish I could clone myself so that I could do everything for work and be a full-time mommy at the same time, and I know that so many women feel the same way. It has been a challenge for me to step back, take a moment to breathe, and to accept the fact that I logistically just cannot do everything and be everywhere at the same time.

You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.

I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I honour and like their opinion I cannot be enthused over it, for I know that those who shape policy and dominate are otherwise inclined. For me, therefore, it is only the Secretary of State who counts.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

I do not wish disaster to British arms.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

"It's OK," Puck says. She has a quick way of hiding her disappointment. If you're not looking for it, she's put it away somewhere before you know it was there. "You're busy." "No," I tell her. "No, I'll think about it. I'm not sure if I can get away." I don't know wheat I'm thinking. I cannot find the time to get away. I'm not a good dinner companion. But it's hard to think of that. Instead I'm wishing that I'd spoken sooner, before I'd seen her disappointment.

This is Rilke. I wish I had written it for you.