Wishes Quotes

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

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

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Slovenia wishes that Montenegro will continue successfully its way towards European integration and will reach peaceful co-habitation with other former Yugoslav peoples within a united Europe.

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

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

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.

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

I'm well aware of the people's wishes.

We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

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.

Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and.... I'm Mrs. Cibrian!

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.