W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wishes have a habit of surprising their makers.”
Source: The Kingdom of Back
“Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it.”
Source: The Fairyland Series
“Wishes on their way to coming true will not be rushed.”
“Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.”
“Wishes tend to come true for people like you.”
Source: Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 3
“Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.”
“Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight,
Whilst distance recommends them to the sight.
Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear:
But show their coarse and nauseous colors near.”
“Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.”
“Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.”
“Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.”
“Wishful thinking will not take you to your destiny.”
“Wishful thinking won't make this world a better place, mindful thinking and heartful action will.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.”
Source: The Dream Songs: Poems
“Wishing a Happy 'New You' to this year.”
Source: Baat Jazbaat Ki/बात जज़्बात की : apni kuchh Nazmon aur Ghazlon ke zariye/अपनी कुछ नज़्मों और ग़ज़लों के ज़रिये
“Wishing all women, whom God created with wombs as a divine mark of distinction, the courage to continue striving against all efforts to diminish their importance.”
“Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.”
Source: Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want
“Wishing bad for the people who are doing better than you shows the kind of person you are.”
“Wishing for better without choosing better doesn't produce better.”
“Wishing for someone to talk to, some warm human hand to cling to, she walked across the giant chessboard, searching blindly through the crowd of immobile figures... until she saw a dark form leaning indolently against a white marble column. Her heart began to hammer, and her steps slowed as she was filled with a rush of excitement that heated her skin and made her pulse beat in urgent rhythm.
It was Simon Hunt, walking toward her with a slight smile on his face. He caught her before she could retreat, and bent to whisper in her ear.
"Will you dance with me now?"
"I can't," she said breathlessly, struggling in his tightening embrace.
"Yes, you can," he urged gently, his mouth hot and tender as it moved across her face. "Put your arms around me..."
As she writhed in his embrace, he laughed softly and kissed her until she was limp and helpless against him. "Queen is now subject to capture," he murmured, drawing back to stare at her with deviltry in his eyes. "You're in danger, Annabelle...”
Source: Secrets of a Summer Night
“Wishing for something doesn’t mean you should have it, and saying something doesn’t necessarily make it true.”
Source: Black Widow Demon
“Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.”
“Wishing gets you nothing.”
“Wishing is a form of inspiration for the lazy mind but taking Action, Persisting and finding alternative routes to your destination against all odds is the definition of a SUCCESSFUL Venture.”
“Wishing is a goal without energy behind it.”
“Wishing is for wishers.
Dreams are for dreamers.
Goals are for doers.”
“Wishing is good for us.
Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations
All drive us forward,
Impel us to make things happen.
They also tell us a lot about ourselves.
Our wishes come straight from our core,
And they are loaded with vital information
About who we are and who we can become.
Keeping track of our wishes
Helps us tap into the energy
That propels us to go after our happiness.”
Source: The Wish List
“Wishing is great if you always back it up with action, otherwise it will remain just a dream. MLK can also learn from it.”
“Wishing is like water caught in a dam. You let a little trickle of it escape and you don't think it's much, but in no time the trickle has worn a channel and the edges fall in and the water's doubled and then you get a flood carrying everything away.”
Source: Marnie
“Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“Wishing is not far from daydreaming.”
“Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.”
“Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.”
“Wishing just brought earned disappointment.”
Source: East of Eden
“Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.”
“Wishing of all employments is the worst”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.”
“Wishing on a star can turn your life into a dream.”
“Wishing that I could stay right here in this moment of not doing, but simply being, forever.”
Source: My Not So Super Sweet Life
“Wishing the dead, ‘rest in peace’ is meaningless – it’s something they already have. Resting peacefully is an exclusive desire of the living or do you wish to be disturbed when at rest? Rest peacefully and rest in peace are one and the same thing. The difference is only in our perception.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Wishing to be enchanting like a flower that spreads fragrance and delighting in its life even though it's life is short.”
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
“Wishing to get before time and more than efforts is the main cause of miseries.”
Source: Krishna Crux
“Wishing to grab the life with nothingness
wanting to erase the sigh of tiredness
forgetting myself completely from my being
why do I seek embrace of yours
do not ask me, I know not,
I am in oblivion.”
“Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.”
Source: Your Magic Power to be Rich!
“Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.”
“Wishing won't make it so
Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it
Religion won't do it, philosophy won't do it
The Supreme Court won't do it, the President and the Congress won't do it
The UN won't do it, the H-bomb won't do it, the sun and the moon won't do it
And God won't do it, and I certainly won't do it
That leaves you, you'll have to do it”
“Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. . . . . Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.”
“Wishing you sunshine and rainbows..”
Source: Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“Wishing you the best adventures in reading and in life!”
Source: The Secrets of Albion Falls
“Wishing you the greatest power of all, which is to see love, or a call for love, in everything.”