Wish Quotes - Page 17

• Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Knowing, World, Portal

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• I'm very romantic and very soppy, but sometimes I wish I wasn't!

  Lee Ryan

  Sometimes, Very Romantic

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• My personal time is limited, more so than I wish. However, my wife and I have talked about the fact that there are opportunities right now that won't be there forever. For example, when the Grateful Dead offered me to tour in 2004, my first reaction was to say no, I just can't do it. Then my wife said, "Well, let's rethink this. You don't want to look back down the road and say, I could've done that, but I said no." So, we made it work.

  Warren Haynes

  Grateful, Opportunity, Wife

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• Why me? Why did this happen? How could I be in Westlife and then have nothing to show for it financially at the end of it? But it's like, why not me? That's just life. It's tough. There's a lot more problems in the world. There are a lot of people who would wish to God they had my problem instead of having a sick child.

  Shane Filan

  Children, Sick, People

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• Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what we wish, they still remain different. Whether or not I am my own master and can follow my own choice and whether the possibilities from which I must choose are many or few are two entirely different questions. The courtier living in the lap of luxury but at the beck and call of his prince may be much less free than a poor peasant or artisan, less able to live his own life and to choose his own opportunities for usefulness.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Opportunity, Two, Luxury

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• Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.

  George Washington

  Patriotic, Men, Good Man

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1779). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.312

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• He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Light, Giving, Receiving

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• I don't drink much anymore, because it's supposedly not good for me. I still have gallons of it around though. I smell the cork and do a lot of wishing.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Smell, Drink, Gallons

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• It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Spring, Light, Doubt

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• I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

  Kristen Wiig

  Creating, My Own

  "Getting Funny with SNL's Kristen Wiig" by Kate Meyers, www.womenshealthmag.com. December 9, 2008.

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• In a world that has gone global, we no longer have a choice. If we don't export freedom, we risk importing the viruses which have corrupted other nations. ... Some critics complained that President Bush was arrogant when he suggested America can and should export freedom to other countries. This implies the people of unfree countries may not wish to be free. Which is the greater arrogance?

  Cal Thomas

  Country, America, People

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• Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Simple, Order, Poet

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• I wish I would tell our audience that we don't hate them without sounding cheesy.

  Kurt Cobain

  Hate, Cheesy, Audience

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• Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

  Epictetus

  Flow, Strive, Wells

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• Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.

  Vera Brittain

  War, Men, Suffering

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• With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.

  Eddie Marsan

  Character, Boys, Play

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• There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.

  Jimmy Connors

  Play, Tennis, Wanted

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• If I could have three wishes, one would be to take an '88 and shove that barrel up Hitler's ass so that cocksucker can cry like the little god-damned girl he is. And hell, after that, I wouldn't need two more wishes.

  George S. Patton

  Girl, Two, Would Be

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• Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Past, Political, Nostalgia

  Michael Ignatieff (2015). “The Needs of Strangers”, p.107, Picador

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• I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  College, Matter, Study

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place?

  Lawrence Fagg

  Real, Guilt, Purpose

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.27, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.

  Confucius

  Men, Perfect, Virtue

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

  Jack Welch

  Honesty, Reality, Intellectual

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• One of the reasons I chose to come to Liverpool was because of the mentality of the club. It's a working club and a working city. I don't know why but I feel like one of the people here. They recognise me and wish me luck but in Spain they surround you and you can't do anything. I think they're happy with me here.

  Fernando Torres

  Thinking, Cities, People

  "Fernando Torres chases more goals in burning desire for first club trophy". Interview with Andy Hunter, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.

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• In living through this great epoch, it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate species that boasts of its free will. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot!

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Islands, Mad

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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