Quotes of: Wishful-thinking Keyword

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

Brent Spiner

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

Drew Carey

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Baltasar Gracian

Everyone tells me that I have a very sweet face! I'd like to change that. I wish I had a more flexible face!

Soundarya

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

Ice Cube

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

Ashley Madekwe

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Fanny Brice

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Joseph Joubert

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Frederick William Robertson

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Georges Bernanos

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

Annie Lennox

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

Cornelius Nepos

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

Jean Toomer

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.

Virginie LeDoyen

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

Dan Harmon

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

Fra Angelico

There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.

Frances Clark