Wish Quotes · Page 132

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

— Rodger Kamenetz

The Wish Factory did a tremendous job and I am amazed at how closely the doll resembles me. The clothes are modeled…

— Cody Simpson

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

— Napoleon Hill

Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish…

— Billie Burke

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

— C. K. Williams

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they…

— Anne Bronte

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

— Colin Powell

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I…

— Andrew Fastow

If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of…

— Corra May Harris

I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with…

— Henry David Thoreau

What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

I have decided to make a personal message to David Haye. I want him to fight me, to be a man. I…

— Wladimir Klitschko

I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice,…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful…

— Louise J. Kaplan

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

— Robert Jordan

Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and…

— Jack Kerouac

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

— Bill Ayers

I wish that a White House celebration of your athletic achievements could be free from politics.

— Will Cain

I wish to pay attention to what we can do better to prevent conflict. Because by avoiding conflict, we save human lives,…

— Miroslav Lajcak

I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

— Anthony Jeselnik

If you give an opportunity to Novak to talk, he's not going to stop. I wish I could stay there for four…

— Aryna Sabalenka

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of…

— John Ciardi

Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily…

— Mahmoud Abbas

I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is…

— Vivienne Westwood

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

— James Howe

“Life is full of tough times and hard decisions. But as long as you choose to do the right thing, you’ll be…

— Chelsea Sedoti

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

— Conrad Veidt

The advice that I wish I would have given myself is to not care about what other people are thinking.

— Charlie Puth

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure…

— Anonymous

I'm greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours,…

— Rakul Preet Singh

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When…

— Philip Larkin

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

— John Mayer

Yeah, it's just a lame term. I wish it was "movie star." That's a much better term than celebrity.

— Jeff Vespa

You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.

— Andrea Gibson

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my…

— Martin Luther King, Jr