Wish Quotes - Page 174

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.

You're learning the whole time. Halfway through a movie, you've got a lot of ideas, a lot of things that maybe you've learned and that you then wish you could apply, but you can't. You just have to finish the movie in that world that you're in. Maybe what you've learned you can apply somewhere else.

Parenting forces us to get to know ourselves better than we ever might have imagined we could--and in many new ways. . . . We'll discover talents we never dreamed we had and fervently wish for others at moments we feel we desperately need them. As time goes on, we'll probably discover that we have more to give and can give more than we ever imagined. But we'll also find that there are limits to our giving, and that may be hard for us to accept.

I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.

We all get out, maybe for longer than we wish, because we all pass this mortal coil more or less and so we certainly get a chance to experience it again, and we've experienced it before we were born. So it's more or less our natural place of being, unless you believe that the only time you're conscious is when you're alive.

I wish my father could be around.

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

But more I cannot wish you Than to wish you find your love Your own true love this day.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead.

I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.

The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now.

Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.

I wish to remain nameless And live without shame 'Cause what's in a name, Oh I still remain the same

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.