Best 4027 quotes in «wish quotes» category

A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.

All "bad" presentations struggle to keep the audience interested. The audience squirms wishing they could escape. The audience has given the presenter an hour of their life, so they want that hour to be useful. It's disrespectful of a presenter to not show up rehearsed and prepared with information and insights that will improve the lives of the audience in some way. Presenting will do only one of two things for you: it will either diminish your credibility or yield results. Most bad presentations hurt the presenter's credibility.

All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Allie would love what you've done," he remarked. "She was always a softie when it came to things like this." I folded my hands in my lap. "I wish she could be there this weekend." Noah glanced at the stack of letters. I knew he was imagining Allie, and for a brief moment, he looked strangely younger. "So do I," he said.

All I'm saying is that sooner of later, you'll have to come to terms with yourself. You can't wish away the vampire in you, and you shouldn't keep atoning for it. You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it. Not to me, to your mum, or to anyone.

All I want for my birthday is another birthday.

All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.

All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.

All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.

All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all... Ah, well, that's not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.

All the happiness there is in the world arises from wishing others to be happy.

All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.

All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand

All we can do about bullies is wish them happiness & celebrate our own.

All you can possibly need or desire is already yours.Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled.

All wishes create an upswing line when it is manifested. Therefore, together, it becomes an incredible upswing of power, whatever you wished. Of course, the more high level wishes, which covers the whole human race is stronger than wishing for getting ice cream for your dessert!

All wish to know, but few the price will pay.

All young lovers, whoever you are, I hope your troubles are few. All my good wishes go with you tonight. I've been in love like you.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

A lot of people have said, "Oh, I, boy, I wish Hillary Clinton would just go away.

A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.

A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

Always endeavor to really be what you would wish to appear.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.

A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.

Amy Adams is the wish your heart makes…she’s wicked good.

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.

Ancient wisdom: deal in personal trust; your word is your bond; avoid extremes; treat the money you invest for others as something sacred; don't take any more perks than you would wish others to take; don't borrow what you couldn't suddenly pay back; imagine the worse case financial scenario and expect it very may well happen; the wealthier you become the more humble you should act.

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.