Quotes of: Wishful-thinking Keyword

There is one difference between mind power and prayer, however, in that subscription to a specific religion, if at all, is not required.

Your Wishes Fulfilled: Volume 1: Theory

Life can only give you what you give back to it, and it all begins with the right attitude.

Your Wishes Fulfilled: Volume 1: Theory

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

Paloma Faith

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

Queen Rania of Jordan

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

Suzanne Farrell

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

Dr. Seuss

I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.

Scott Thompson

I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.

Steven Wright

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

Townsend Harris

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

Karl Rove

I wish to reiterate solemnly China's continued firm support to Pakistan in its efforts to uphold independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.

Li Keqiang

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

Lea Salonga

When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential.

Lionel Suggs

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

Maya Angelou

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.

Miranda Hart

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

Michelle Kwan

Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.

Melissa McCarthy

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

Robert Southey

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

Manfred von Richthofen