Quotes of: Well-wishes Keyword

Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just e...

Shannon L. Alder

I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and ”the world is an ugly place and not everyone wants you well”. But I was not afraid and I wished for...

Charlotte Eriksson

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing—to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Puli...

Isaac Asimov

Lucilla: What did my father want with you? Maximus: To wish me well before I leave for home. Lucilla: You're lying, I could always tell when you were lying because you were never any good at it. Maximus: I never acquired your comfort with it. Lucilla...

Gladiator

Sam: So, I'm guessing you've never been high before. Charlie: No. No, no, no. My best friend, Michael, his dad was a big drinker, so he hated all that stuff. Parties too. Sam: Well, where is Michael tonight? Charlie: Oh, he shot himself last May. I k...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Nationalism as a thesis confuses (almost always deliberately) certain legitimate desires with illegitimate ones. People like to run their own affairs, and most people value the culture they were raised in, are proud of its achievements and wish it we...

Anthony C. Grayling

What have you done?” Shadow asked her, his eyes alive with fear. “I dunno, but I wish I hadn't.

The Demons Fib

All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

I have nothing to do with the partisans. I wish to defy society not in order to improve it, but to hold it at bay no matter what. I suspend my achievements – but also my demands.

Eumeswil

This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

Bitterblue

I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

Anne Lamott

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

Will Estes

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were a...

Archibald MacLeish

I wish somebody would have told my grandpa about the Cold War, so he could have at least put on a jacket.

$3.33

And everybody should have at least one person in his or her life who doesn't want a damned thing from them except a bit of friendly company

4th wish

In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be achieved.

The Art of Self-Control

I wish I could take it all back, but I can’t. And I definitely can’t un-feel a feeling.

The Jelly Bean Crisis

There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine

Just the Way I Feel

Be careful what you wish for or pray for, because whatever you wish for or pray for, you will have to take care of.

Jesus, God and Us

The only thing I can tell you is when it's there, you know it. And when it ain't, no amount of wishful thinking will make it so.

Real Romance

Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.

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