Wish Quotes - Page 5

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking and crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach. 'Talent' or 'lack of talent' have little to do with it.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.

Be the person you wish to become - today. Talk like them, walk like them, breathe like them! Be them NOW!

I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that.