Wish Quotes - Page 35

There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact.

Wish I could take your tears and replace them with laughter.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

We must pray to God everyday to show we don't forget that all gifts come from Him. But if some wishes remain unfulfilled we must show our confidence in Him, for He knows best.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government is one of the most important-and most forgotten-bulwarks of freedom.

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can best phrase what he wishes to communicate to the patient; and, at the same time, observing the general pattern of the events being communicated. In addition to that, to make notes which will be of more than evocative value, or come anywhere near being a verbatim record of what is said, in my opinion is beyond the capacity of most human beings.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit

We should be so joyful from God's grace that others would respond by saying, 'I wish I had your God.

When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no piano like it in the world.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.