Best 4027 quotes in «wish quotes» category

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

He does not keep company with those who wish to harm him.

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.

He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

He makes it look easy. You wish there was another league he could get called up to.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.

He realized something was going on between Logan and me. I wish he'd clue me in on exactly what it was, because I had no idea.

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.

Here I am! Now what are your other two wishes

Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

Here is a fact: someday you will die. What will you do with this incredible gift that is your life? Do you want to get to the end of the road and wish you had strived more, accomplished more, and loved more? To do these things you will have to take chances, demonstrate courage, and commit in a way that allows you to be flexible but never allows you to quit on yourself.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fibre of your being, wishing that he would die the most violent death possible. It will pass.

Here's what I wish people wouldn't ask me: "Who are your influences?" That's a boring question. It's not even like, "What's it like to be a woman in comedy?" That question also happens often in interviews, but I at least understand where it's coming from. "Who are your influences" - I wonder if people ask that of male comics? Maybe they do.

Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect.

He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

He's tough (Tiger Woods). I wish I was that tough when I was his age.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.

He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from hatred.

He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable. He emerged from these spells with eyeballs still oscillating and a wish that his neck could rotate through the full 360 degrees.

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator -- though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed.

He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.

He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success.

He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.