I Wish Quotes

God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes no one to perish, has procured some remedy unto salvation.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

Discipline is remembering what you want most, not what you want now.

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars

Wish I could take your tears and replace them with laughter.

Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again

Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.

Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

I wish to go on living even after my death.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

It is too late, now I wish I could live.

Many say they can't get God's guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.

Why is it that you don't love me?" "Sometimes I wish I knew..." "Don't anybody tell him!!

If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.

I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.

It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.

I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

We should be so joyful from God's grace that others would respond by saying, 'I wish I had your God.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

Speaking as an actress, I wish all actors would be more like Duke Wayne. And speaking as a person, it would be nice if all people could be honest and as genuine as he is. This is a real man.

I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.

true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

Sometimes I wish we could rub out all of our mistakes and start fresh, from the beginning,' I said. 'And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.