Quotessence
Home / Topics / Wish Quotes

Wish Quotes

Browse 9106 quotes about Wish.

Related topics

IfsPeopleThinkingKnowsMenWorldWantWayShouldMayWish YouGivingWellsFirstsSaidBelieveFeelsSometimesDoeLooksKindWritingI CanMindHeartLittlesNeedsMeanDesirePersonsDreamYearsDoneLongTryingMadeWould BeHas BeensChildrenHumansStillsEnoughMightMomentsEndsBookHelpingDifferentHandsTwoHappensRealFeelingsWholeLifeSeemsSelfFactsInspirationalShowsCountryDiesMatterSoulIdeasStatesUseArtEyeLastsReasonWarPlayBeautifulHomePastRememberHardGirlAbleFacesHateTodayWantedAgeCareYoungAsksRealityMy OwnBodyMy WishCoursesImportantOrderLoveMotherNightTogetherSpeakmore

Wish Quotes

“I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.”

IfsGovernmentWishIntellectualSafetyExtremesSecureArtisticArrogantArbitraryHerdsCivilisationMenaceCoarse
Book:Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft
Create image

“Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they meet. Thus they will find that there is no one who has not much of good; and when they see some great folly, or some meanness, or some cowardice, or some fault or weakness in another person, they should examine themselves carefully. Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves - although perhaps it does not come out in the same way - and then they must try to conquer that fault.”

PeopleKnowsMenWayShouldTryingWellsChildrenPersonsDoeWishWeaknessFaultsNobleConquerFollyGreat MenCowardiceMeanness
Book:Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)
Create image

“I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it much more highly than any business success if I could contribute to an understanding of the world in which we live or, better yet, if I could help to preserve the economic and political system that has allowed me to flourish as a participant.”

IfsWorldWritingLongBookHelpingLastsPoliticalValuesWishUnderstandingEconomicCivilizationPreservesIf I CouldBusiness SuccessParticipantsPolitical Systems
Author:George Soros
Create image

“I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.”

IfsWaySaidIdeasSometimesWould BeRunningThreeNextWishMy OwnAbilityNumbersTalkingFiveWeekDyingFineMonthsLimitsRichesBlockDryEmbarrassmentNumber Three
Author:Woody Allen
Create image

“I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it.”

KnowsDoeBeautifulArtistWishPaintingDependsSmellSincereForeground
Author:Marcel Proust
Create image

“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”

PeopleIfsBelieveHumansHardPainDesireI BelieveWishFeltHuman BeingsAchieveHard WorkRootsSaintPsychologicalTemptationMotiveAttachmentAspireSainthood
Book:Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950
Create image

“A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.”

MenWayWellsPersonsWishWomenTaughtHe ManConversationCreaturesDelightWitAccomplishmentEnjoymentComparisonHeavenlyRejoicePortionsBehaviourSweetnessBeing ThankfulSuitableSoftnessAngelicEmblemsPeace Love
Book:An Essay Upon Projects
Create image

“To be sure, the ancient belief that the dream reveals the future is not entirely devoid of truth. By representing to us a wish as fulfilled the dream certainly leads us into the future; but this future, taken by the dreamer as present, has been formed into the likeness of that past by the indestructible wish.”

Has BeensDreamPastBeliefWishTakenAncientDreamerFulfilledRepresentingIndestructible
Book:THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS - The Royal Road to the Unconscious: Rules of Dream Interpretation: The Dream as a Fulfillment of a Wish, Distortion in Dreams, The Method of Dream Interpretation, The Sources of Dreams & The Psychology of the Dream Activities
Create image

“Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art.”

FeelsTryingFirstsArtFeelingsWishFeltForgetMereFormerRemoveWorks Of ArtStatuesSpectatorsHasteCrucifixionEgyptianGaugesLouvre
Author:Andre Malraux
Create image

“Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.”

IfsMenMayReasonUseWishUnderstandingReligiousSubjectsOne DayCreaturesCapableGloryPraiseVainNo ReasonBlessVoidCrownsGlory Of GodGlorifyPraise God
Book:Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea
Create image

“Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.”

WishReadyGainsCreditBeing True
Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
Create image

“After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn't looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don't see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in movies.”

KnowsMenSaidLastsActorsFatherWishFieldsDadMetsWorkersDivorceArchitectureAidsBradBest Father
Author:Angelina Jolie
Create image

“There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.”

MindHas BeensMightPastDesireEnergyWishDifficultWorryAliveAmountEgoHappeningsRelationFrustratedIdleFrozenMight Have BeenDifficult ThingsWhen Things Go Wrong
Author:Meher Baba
Create image

“I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers and lift operators of Thomson House would remember that they too are members of our working class movement and have a responsibility to see that what is said about us is true.”

SaidSometimesRememberHouseWishResponsibilityClassMediaMovementMembersMassTradeLiftsSecretaryWorking ClassMass MediaOperatorsBroadcastersPrinter
Author:Tony Benn
Create image

“I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book - one of these rare books I wish had been even longer. It's about how Darwin 's theory - supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus - led to the murder of millions of innocent people.”

PeopleMenBookReadingWishWhiteInterestingMillionsTheoryMurderInnocentVery InterestingSantaBeardSanta ClausPrepsBook CoversInteresting Book
Author:Ben Stein
Create image

“I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case.”

IfsThinkingWholeStoriesWould BeBeliefWishChurchReligiousCasesAtheismInfluenceEffectsClaimsAtheistEnvyBelieverTalesVersionsMiserableFaithfulFairyFairy TaleSentimentalPositivelyReligious BeliefRelievedSinisterUntruth
Book:Letters to a Young Contrarian
Create image

“Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.”

ShouldWishReligiousWealthProgressPerfectionLustDevotionSnaresReligious Devotion
Book:Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna
Create image

“He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.”

IfsThinkingMenTwoMatterWould BeIndividualWishGenerationsInfluenceSubjectsOppositesSpeciesBonesAccidentsFleshReconcileTwo OppositesExternal Influences
Book:The Guide for the Perplexed
Create image

“I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects - for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge - yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.”

MadeSaidLightEyeWishBornDarkSkyEffectsColorFlowerCloudsCastsNobleSteadfastPluckAbodeLight DarkDark Colors
Book:John Constable's Correspondence
Create image

“He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of.”

ShouldWellsMayCharacterUseFormArtistLostWishPerfectPowerfulSunSubjectsEffectsExpressionOughtAspectSightAppearanceSettingCommandSettingsColourOver ItShadeOrgansDispositionCheerfulSolemnJoyousChiaroscuro
Author:John Constable
Create image