I Wish Quotes

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.

Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.

Most of all I hope the tournament [The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations] will help unite our people [in Gabon]. My wish is to celebrate a big party all together.

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

It is a kind of self-projection of our sins when we insist on other people becoming good. In reality, we wish to become good, but because we are unable to, we demand it of others and insist on this.

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

If you wish to fault the administration, it is that we didn't have a clear picture and we probably didn't do as clear a job explaining that we did not have a clear picture until days later.

A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

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

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.

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

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.