Wish Quotes - Page 41

We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

I've always rebelled a little when people say, 'My Jewish values lead me to really care about the poor.' I know some Christians who care about the poor, too.

God will not make you do something you don't want to do - He will just make you wish you had.

A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.

If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.

I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from.

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.

To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.

All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.

What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.

I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.

In the Jewish tradition of the Bible it says, "Speak to her softly, so that she will want to engage in sexual activity." In today's world, there's a little bit of a danger in that people don't really talk to each other. You see couples walking in the street, each one of them texting someone else. That worries me.

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.

Size is nothing to the universe (unlimited abundance if that's what you wish) We make the rules on size and time.

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy.