Wish Quotes - Page 62

So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another... Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position

Here I am! Now what are your other two wishes

I wish I could, instead of destroying things like that, I wish I could build, build, build.

I don’t have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

You cannot call yourself patient until you are willing and able to bear things that you have no wish to bear.

Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

Well, if the excitement's over, I think I'll take a bath.' 'Wow. The harsh lifestyle of a succubus. I wish I had your job.' 'Hey, our side's always recruiting. You might need to be a little prettier to be an incubus, though. And a little more charming.' 'Untrue. Mortal women go for jerks. I see it all the time.' 'Touché.

The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.

A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."