Wish Quotes - Page 45

Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their families and their race.

On Father's Day, we again wish you all happy birthday.

This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades (and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters.

I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.

The time has come to get clear about who you are and what you choose. There must come moments in every person's life when a decision is necessary. A big decision. A major choice. Such a time is now. What you get to choose today is who you are and who you choose to be, and what you wish to experience in your life. Remember, not to decide is to decide.

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

One should not seek those who do not wish to be found.

There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.

If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers.

Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Love the calling you have, not the one you wish you had.

I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

I said Justin Bieber looked like a little lesbian -- and I stand by it: He's the daughter Cher wishes she'd had.

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

Life is about making mistakes. Death is about wishing you made more.