Wishes Quotes
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An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
Alec Guinness
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I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
Ted Nugent
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Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.
Yuan Yuan Tan
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I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
Felix Bloch
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
Saint Ignatius
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Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.
Hailee Steinfeld
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There are only two loves, whence originate all our wishes and all our actions: the love of God which does all for God and which God rewards and the love of ourselves and of the world, which does not refer to God what should be referred to him and which for that very reason becomes evil.
Pasquier Quesnel
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They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself. That is the lesson of Babylon 5.
J. Michael Straczynski
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.
Mattie Stepanek
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
Fra Angelico
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To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: 'May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.' Repeat this until you actually mean it.
Martha Beck
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'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
Rae Carson
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The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.
Emma Goldman
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Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that what Allah wishes them to say.
Umar
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Samuel Johnson
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Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.
Kate Williams