I Wish Quotes

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Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

Think! You can think any think that you wish.

In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.

People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.

It's better to recall something you wish you'd said than something you wish you hadn't.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.

With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth are you going to live it?

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend.

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

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

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"

All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me.

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.

I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church and sin-- it's a monstrous problem.

I feel that as long as you keep running towards your dreams and wish, they'll come true one day. Hard work will not betray ourselves

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

Hiding here, are you? That’s awkward.” “Why?” “Because I had intended to hide here myself.” “You may hide here with me, if you wish.

The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish that he was my brother and you weren't." - Clary

If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.

Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

You've always had me ... and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up.

I wish i could change my mind as easily as I change socks But then I don't change socks so easily

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

Sunday is a day given over by Americans to wishing that the themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.

We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.