Wish Quotes - Page 55

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

Love must be the first thought and the last thought of the day, if you wish to live in peace and happiness.

Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

That's a big love letter," she says, squinting. I know what I'm going to say and for a moment I wish there was a film crew documenting my day-to-day life: "I've got a big heart," I say.

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.

None love, but they who wish to love.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!

For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting.

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

There are things that happen so quickly. A better cameraman can capture them, but if the light is not bright and you hoist up your camera by the time you've dialed in your settings. There are eye blink moments where you're like "Aaahhhh, I wish," but those are too many to catalogue. Nothing really sticks out.

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

I wish all men were like dogs.

If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.