Wish Quotes - Page 20

For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.

It’s not enough to wish, it’s not enough to dream, it’s not enough to promise. We must do.

I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.

When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Magic is natural. It is a harmonious movement of energies to create a needed change. If you wish to practice magic, all thoughts of it being paranormal or supernatural must be forgotten.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true.

I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen.

All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.

The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.

How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money.

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished they can do no harm.

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

The whole thing resolves itself into our mental ability to control our thought. The man who can do this can have what he wants, can do what he wishes and becomes what he wills.

To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems

But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.

I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.