Wish Quotes - page 4

I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could. (Minoru Yamasaki)
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war. View quote
Arthur Henderson
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish. View quote
David Trimble
The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars. View quote
Giotto di Bondone
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. View quote
Jean Kerr
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. View quote
Rollo May
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that? View quote
Mick Jagger
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives. View quote
John Forbes Nash
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. (Blaise Pascal)
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. View quote
Ayn Rand
Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. View quote
Ayn Rand
When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. View quote
Cicero
A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true. View quote
Steve Martin
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. View quote
Robert E. Lee
We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect. View quote
Robert Jordan
Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barbers shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder. View quote
Emma Thompson
You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional. (Henry James)
To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience. View quote
Peter Sellers
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
If you wish to be a writer, write. View quote
Epictetus
That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. View quote
Samuel Johnson