Wish Quotes - Page 33

Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one feeling at a time. Classical music is by its very nature involved with different kinds of music, constantly transforming one another, which is more akin to the way our experience of life really is.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

Do nothing through human respect and, when it assails you, say: I shall do neither more nor less for the eyes of creatures. O my God, since I wish to please Thee alone, it suffices that Thou seest me everywhere.

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of a lancet for you will only drive it deeper. Rough speech and harsh gestures are the stick, while even-tempered instruction and patient reprimand are the lancet. 'Reprove, rebuke, exhort,' says the Apostle (II Tim. 4:2), not 'batter'.

​To go where you're wishing you could go, first you must tie your shoes and step off the porch.

If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.

You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes.

If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.

The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.

I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

Some things youll never know, and some things youll wish you never knew.

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you.

The phrase "Be Good to Each Other" is very important to me and something that I wish had been said more when I was in high school.

If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands.

I want my legacy to be greater freedom, greater prosperity and a better way of life for my family, our employees and all Americans. And I wish the same for every nation on earth.