Wish Quotes - Page 191

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

I wish I wasn't eating Cheetos every night. Those are my favorite - I'm addicted to them!

I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.

I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. The only place success comes before work is a dictionary Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

For themost of us, if we donot talkof ourselves, orat any rate of the individual circles of which we are the centres, we can talk of nothing. I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.

Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.

Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.