Wish Quotes

• I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Freedom
  • Education
  • Law

• The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Wish
  • Older
  • Limit

• The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Facts

• If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Profession

• I look at the Chrissy Teigens of the world, who I absolutely love, and I wish that I could say some of the stuff that she says. But I know where I want to go in my career path and I know that there are some things I can't say.

  

  Charissa Thompson
  • World
  • Wish
  • Path

• I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands.

  

  Charles Goodnight
  • Honor
  • Loyalty
  • Bravery

• We've sure come a long way since then. Sometimes I wish we hadn't. I hate H-bombs and the Jerry Springer show.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Long
  • Hate
  • Wish

• Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Different
  • Policy
  • Confusing

• I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Soul
  • Opportunity
  • Hazards

• The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Force
  • Conservative
  • Reform

• I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do.

  

  Monica Ali
  • Wish
  • Morning

• If you wish to write, write.

  

  Epictetus
  • Wish
  • Write

• People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Understanding
  • Mathematics
  • Settling

• How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

  

  William Cowper
  • Trying
  • Past
  • Wish

• I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • People
  • Appreciation
  • Secretary

• Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to get without giving, to take without risking, to profit without sacrifice, to be exalted without humbling themselves to understand others and meet their needs.

  

  George Gilder
  • Giving
  • Sacrifice
  • Birth

• I like my voice, but I can't deliver as much as I wish I could.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Wish
  • Voice

• You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Wish
  • Vision
  • Hearing

• Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.

  

  Miranda Cosgrove
  • Want
  • Wish
  • Actors

• I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.

  

  Cesar Millan
  • Dog
  • Kid
  • Act

• We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the layman must have the Scripture, and read it for himself, taking God for his teacher.

  

  William Tyndale
  • Men
  • Teacher
  • Teaching

• No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's a terrible place to live.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • People
  • Wish
  • Struggle

• well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Thinking
  • Wish
  • Obvious

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