Quotes of: I-wish Keyword

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Julius Caesar

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Max Lerner

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

Nikita Khrushchev

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

Susan B. Anthony

Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.

Amit Kalantri

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Andrew Morton

A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Alexander Smith

If you wish, you may. If you want, you can. If you are determined, you will.

Vinita Kinra

Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.

Wynton Marsalis

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

William Wordsworth

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

Franz Liszt

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

Hari Kunzru

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

Yoko Ono

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Laurence J. Peter

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all th...

Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event...

The Glass Bead Game

It was so kind of you to write to me about your experiences during the Occupation. At the war's end, I, too, promised myself that I had done with talking about it. I had talked and lived war for six years, and I was longing to pay attention to someth...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society