Best 4027 quotes in «wish quotes» category

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgemental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.

James Allen says 'We curse the effect and nourish the cause.' The guy puts sand in his shoes and he can hardly walk and you ask why would you do that? Why would we wish for it to change, hope for it to change, but all the while resisting change?

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, because it will never change. I have such a fear of seeing you grow old, Jeanne, I fell in love with an unchanging you that will never be taken away from me. I was wishing you would die, so that no one could take you away from me, and I would love the painting of you as you would look eternally.

Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.

Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him.

John Cryan and I worked together at UBS, and I think John is one smart, hardworking individual, and I wouldn't bet against John. I wish him well.

Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.

John Le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15th. He sadly misses family and friends.

Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.

[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they'll wish you the best and want only what's going to make you happy.

Just a tiny red sliver remains in the battery icon. I wish humans came with the same kind of indicator . . . it would make things much easier. You would know how to deal with every person on the planet, and I’d always be in the red.

Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.

Katrina Kaif is doing very well for herself and I'd like to wish her a very Happy Birthday

Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.

Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.

Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.

Le de s ir de la prie'  re est de j a'   une prie'  re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer.

Learn to become still, and take your attention away from what you don't want

Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.

Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine.

Let every creature have your love. Love, with its fruits of meekness, patience, and humility, is all that we can wish for ourselves and our fellow creatures. For this is to live in God, united with him, both for time and eternity. To desire to communicate good to everyone, in the degree that we can and to which each person is capable of receiving from us, is a divine temper, for thus God stands unchangeably disposed towards the whole creation.

Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.

Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.

Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants. If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you.

Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.

Letting yourself simply experience your difficulties without getting caught up in thoughts about how much you dislike them and in wishes that you didn't have to deal with them in the first place will change your experience of difficulties.

Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.

Let the people decide through the marketplace mechanism what they wish to see and hear. Why is there this national obsession to tamper with this box of transistors and tubes when we don't do the same for Time magazine?

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.