Wish Quotes - page 7

But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change. (Claudia Schiffer)
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king. View quote
Walter Scott
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land Whose heart hath neer within him burnd, As home his footsteps he hath turnd From wandering on a foreign strand If such there breathe, go mark him well For him no Minstrel raptures swell High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonord, and unsung. View quote
Walter Scott
'T is an old tale and often told But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me. View quote
Walter Scott
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
In this faith I wish to live and die. View quote
François Villon
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power. View quote
Plato
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us. View quote
Aristotle
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. View quote
Franz Kafka
Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us. View quote
Sigmund Freud
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor. View quote
John Chrysostom
Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like? View quote
John Chrysostom
I'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. View quote
Matt Groening
Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed. View quote
Ned Vizzini
I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see. View quote
Norman Lewis
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly. View quote
Pierre Loti
Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish. View quote
Aristide Briand
I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard. View quote
Bill Joy
As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses. (Gustav Stresemann)
I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh. View quote
Diane Lane
Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way? View quote
David Levithan
Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone. View quote
Jean Rhys
Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have. View quote
Julie Garwood