Quotes about Wishes

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."
-Voltaire

"Courtesy: Wishes not to be loved, but to be lovely; Not to be benefitted, but to be a benevolence."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of."
-Mark Twain

"Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen."
-Alyce P. Cornyn selby

"It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane."
-Charles Lindbergh

"Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties."
-Alexander Maclaren

"I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable."
-Mark Mcgwire

"We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada."
-Pierre Elliott Trudeau

"I do not wish to give up the power of personal arms and be defenseless against those who will ever and always keep and bear arms those in crime and those in government."
-Robert W. Burke

"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
-George Bernard Shaw

"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live."
-Oscar Wilde

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
-Oscar Wilde

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."
-John F. Kennedy

"What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses."
-Woodrow Wilson

"Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise."
-Christopher Columbus

"He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise."
-Christopher Columbus

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
-John Adams

"He was expressing the wishes of the U.S. elite, ... If anything happens to me, then the man responsible will be George W. Bush. He will be the assassin."
-Hugo Ch

"Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes."
-Nikita Khrushchev

"What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes? Lots of things, and it may take months or years for wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen."
-Fred Rogers

"We've been delighted to have Kasper here and he has enjoyed the experience. He leaves with our best wishes."
-Mark Proctor

"Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse."
-George Sheehan

"He wants to thank everybody who has sent him good wishes. He's grateful for the support and understands the criticism."
-Phil Hughes