Wish Quotes - Page 81

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Don't ever wish you were someone else, you were meant to be the way you are exactly.

I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.

Try saying this silently to everyone and everything you see for thirty days and see what happens to your own soul: I wish you happiness now and whatever will bring happiness to you in the future.

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.

Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists.

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting to demolish the rock from the outside with hammer and chisel. The later mathematicians resemble expert miners who seek vulnerable veins, drill into these strategic places, and then blast the rock apart with well placed internal charges.

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.

Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.