Wish Quotes - Page 82

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself

Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

No measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance, or to the general sentiment and wish of the Nation than to establish a systematic and effectual arrangement for the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about a supernatural influence. But until such time as nature becomes hopelessly unintelligible and unpredictable, we need look no further than nature itself for explanations.

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.

A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.

Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.