Wish Quotes - page 16

The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity. (Herbert Hoover)
I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle. View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand - nature; and do what a little child could do - love. View quote
Charles Kingsley
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
I am not what I ought to be - ah, how imperfect and deficient! I am not what I wish to be - I abhor what is evil, and I would cleave to what is good! I am not what I hope to be - soon, soon shall I put off mortality, and with mortality all sin and imperfection. Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was; a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the apostle, and acknowledge, "By the grace of God I am what I am." View quote
John Newton
I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all. View quote
Bill Hicks
America has many glories. The last one that she would wish to surrender is the glory of the men who have served her in war. While such devotion lives, the nation is secure. Whatever dangers may threaten from within or without, she can view them calmly. Turning to her veterans, she can say: 'These are our defenders. They are invincible. In them is our safety.' View quote
Calvin Coolidge
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. View quote
Alexander Smith
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. View quote
Gene Wolfe
People who wish to be lost always get their way. View quote
Gene Wolfe
Crazy. Karma is a bitch. Gets you every time. It's not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything! View quote
LeBron James
I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences. View quote
Alexander Woollcott
Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam. View quote
Daniel Pipes
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. View quote
Tom Lehrer
Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in some measure imperfect. What consolation is it for us to learn, that, not until we are along with him, does he possess all his parts, or wish to be regarded as complete! Hence, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, when the apostle discusses largely the metaphor of a human body, he includes under the single name of Christ the whole Church. (John Calvin)
We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members of every human grouping would criticize their own past, even before criticizing others. View quote
Israel Shahak
My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity. View quote
Masiela Lusha
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish. View quote
Terence McKenna
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design. View quote
Helen Keller