Quotes of: I-wish Keyword

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

Dodie Smith

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Lydia M. Child

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

W. H. Auden

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Tony Robbins

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

Hassan Nasrallah

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

George Eliot

If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.

Jay Weatherill

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Euripides

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

Fred Melamed

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

Barbara Sher

More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.

Harlan Coben

The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.

James Gray

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Prospering and living happily aren't things to wish for; they are abilities that you were already born with.

Edmond Mbiaka

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Edgar Allan Poe

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You should give no indication that we wish the three-way division of Bosnia.

Franjo Tudjman

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

Cheri K. Erdman

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

Jackie Chan

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

Erich Fromm