Quotes of: Wishful-thinking Keyword

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

Stephen Jay Gould

Reading books is like your own emotional and wishful life that you could see yourself living.

Sarah Johnson

I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.

Ted Nugent

Everybody in the world has a different reason for wishing they could say things that most people know not to say.

Lisa Edelstein

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Robert J. Ringer

...how he loved and yet wished to leave you: always both, at once.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.

Maisie Williams

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Cyril Connolly

Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.

Ezra Taft Benson

If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.

Agnes Macphail

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Leo Buscaglia

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Rollo May

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

Dodie Smith

I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.

Shekhar Kapur

I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

Alexander Pushkin

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

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.

Brendan Fraser

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

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

Hilary Duff