Quotes of: Wishful-thinking Keyword

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Franz Kafka

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Charles Darwin

In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.

Carla Hall

Some people are way less creative than you wish they were.

Christina Hendricks

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

Chi McBride

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

Isabel Allende

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

Jennifer Aniston

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

James Buchan

To improve performance don't wish for smoothness; always be ready to face the challenge.

Debasish Mridha

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

Edie Brickell

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

George Bernard Shaw

What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

George Bernard Shaw

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Henry Clay

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

Henry IV

Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for.

Joshua A. Tucker

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

John Dyer

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

Jacob Bronowski

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

Olivia Thirlby

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

Al Franken

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

Vinoba Bhave