Best 4027 quotes in «wish quotes» category

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

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.

A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.

A wish is a dish that's a lot like a fish: Once it's been eaten it's harder to throw back. - Mr. Rakshasas

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.

Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldnt because we should all just get along, really.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.

Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it.

Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.

Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes—into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!

Before and after... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.

Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it

Before you lost your mind, how did you make a living?" "I was a hitman for the Mafia. Are you done crying yet?" "I wasn't crying! And I wish you were a hitman because, if I had money, I'd hire you right this minute to knock yourself off.

Beggars can't be choosers. We don't have all the money in the world. So anyone who wants to be in the band and be broke - that's their own death wish.

Behave like the human being you wish all would be

Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.

Be sensitive to subtle differences between 'intuition' and 'into wishing'.

Be the leader you wish you had.

Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.

Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

Birthday Wishes Are sent your way! To wish you Such Wonderful Day!

Be willing to dream, and imagine yourself becoming all that you wish to be. Keep in mind the basic axiom -- all that now exists was once imagined. It follows then that what you want to exist for you in the future must now be imagined.

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at the same time allured and terrified by the glare of publicity....You could do anything you like with them, if you would treat them (even the big ones) not as wolves and tigers, but as domestic animals by nature, even though they have been badly brought up and not trained as you would wish.

Bush's America. I wish we had more time. I didn't even vote for him the second time, and I feel like I got to defend him.