Wish Quotes - page 12

It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. (E. M. Forster)

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

Barbara Bush

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

Carl Rogers

The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.

Ambrose Bierce

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

Edward Sapir

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.

Ryan Reynolds

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies.

Thomas Gainsborough

How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!

Emil Cioran

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

Emil Cioran

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

Maya Angelou

I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that. (Kristin Kreuk)

I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote," so right before I die I could say "unquote."

Steven Wright

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Steve Jobs

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

Steve Jobs

Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings.

Edward Said

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Cesare Pavese

A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.

Cesare Pavese

As more and more people see how it works more and more will wish to participate in or support it. And so it will grow, without being necessary to force everyone or a majority or anyone into the pattern.

Robert Nozick

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

Abigail Adams

I wanna bite the hand that feeds me. I wanna bite that hand so badly. I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.

Elvis Costello

For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting. (Jacques de Molay)

I wish to suggest that ample opportunity does exist for dissent, for protest, and for nonconformity. But I must also say that the right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Hubert Humphrey

If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A. D., and besides telescopes are unnatural.

Timothy Leary

With how much ease believe we what we wish!

John Dryden

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

George Borrow

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