Wish Quotes - Page 77

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense.

Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.

I wish to improve my power, but not in a home run way.

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

I wish I could score everything for horns.

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all is the fear that it gestates the revolutionary impulse of our future.

Internet has considerably changed the rules. Some artists do not try to become celebrities: the internet does the job for them and makes them, slowly, famous.... without them wishing to become celebrated.

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: "Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened" is one of the funniest lines in any film.

Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.

I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

When you're trading well, you have a better mental attitude. When you're trading poorly, you start wishing and hoping. Instead of getting into trades you think will work, you end up getting into trades you hope will work.

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

The fundamental challenge of achieving anything you wish is first to convince yourself to do it. Once you are totally convinced of its value, you'll find a way to get it done.

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.