Wish Quotes - Page 42

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.

There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.

Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so

I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldnt because we should all just get along, really.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth are you going to live it?

He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.

You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Our trials are supposed to turn us toward God, but we whine and complain and wish someone would turn down the fire so we could have our old life back the way it was.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

I wish we lived in a world where all kids were loved by their parents how I was and am every day.

I was having panic attacks. I didn't want to live that way anymore. I was in love and I wanted it to work. I was tired of travelling, tired of the whole scene, just tired. I sat around. I was lazy. I wanted a routine, and I wanted to wake up in the same bed every day, and I got my wish.

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.

The future is sending back good wishes and waiting with open arms.

I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on your wrists. 'There, there,' my words would say - Or something better. I would ask them to murmur, 'Hush' and 'Shh, shhh, it's all right.' I would ask them to hold you all night. I wish I could take language And daub and soothe and cool Where fever blisters and burns, Where fever turns yourself against you. I wish I could take language And heal the words that were the wounds You have no names for.

you have to realize that you don't have someone else's life and your never going to. You better start loving the one you got. Embrass the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do what you want to do with me".

I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.

I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me.

He's tough (Tiger Woods). I wish I was that tough when I was his age.