Wish Quotes - Page 97

The purpose of life is to live your dreams, you should never smother your wishes.

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.

I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again.

Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect,but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us.

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.

I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.