Wish Quotes - Page 164

I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.

He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.

If you fall from here, if you're not dead you're gonna wish you were.

I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.

I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.

No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.

When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.

I remember when I first won the Academy Award, and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

We have the talent, just not the money and not the audience. People in France don't really like fantasy. You need to go to Spain, England and Germany for that. Many of the people from my crew come either from Spain or England. But I hope to be able to work with them again and I wish to create European cinema on that scale. It could happen and attitudes may be changing. Animated fantasy movie Despicable Me was made entirely in France, so there is the talent here and now maybe the desire too.

I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.

My wish is peace for Israel and for Israel's neighbors.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!

Most of those who spend their lives as critics secretly wish they'd be considered important enough for someone to bother criticizing them.

There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity.

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

When you are in the American Idol bubble, a lot of contestants want to go as far as they can and wish to be on point with ready-to-go songs.

I really want to show my supporters - -the direction I wish to go into, and my fans know that is what I want to do! They even have recommended songs for me to sing, I love my fans...they are awesome!

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.