Wish Quotes - Page 17

If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

I really do wish people could understand me some day.

I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

If I could have three wishes, one would be to take an '88 and shove that barrel up Hitler's ass so that cocksucker can cry like the little god-damned girl he is. And hell, after that, I wouldn't need two more wishes.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

We will work with any Administration and with any President in whom the American people have placed their trust. That is, of course, if they wish to cooperate with Russia.

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

There’s a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

Every day, I wish to make the world more beautiful than I found it.

I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.

I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and otherworldly. My wish is for the narrative in the pictures to work within that circumstance. It is that sense of in-between-ness that interests me.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.