Quotes of: Wishful-thinking Keyword

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Christopher Marlowe

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.

Harvey Pekar

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Jacques Barzun

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

James M. Cain

If you wish to change the world just be kind to your neighbors.

Debasish Mridha

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

Dani Shapiro

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Ezra Taft Benson

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Barbara Kingsolver

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

Bruno Mars

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Charles Baudelaire

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.

G.I. Gurdjieff

No matter what justification you have for your feelings, you cannot wish harmful things on others.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.

Hilary Duff

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

John Mayer

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

John McCarthy

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

John Sununu

Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.

Denzil Douglas

I would wish eventually to be able to make television that informs and educates as well as entertains.

Drummond Money-Coutts

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

John Witherspoon