Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful. — Plato Copy Share Image
I never meditated before. I wish I'd started when I was a footballer or more importantly when I was a manager. It… — Gianluca Vialli Copy Share Image
You hear players in the past say that it's just a job for them, but for me, it is nothing like that.… — Jamie Vardy Copy Share Image
You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
What made it so special were the players. They were some of the most outstanding men I have ever been around in… — Mike Singletary Copy Share Image
If I had one wish, I would say to be born in the '30s and be young in the '50s and '60s.… — Kevin Magnussen Copy Share Image
“Other Than You If I could have just one wish, I would wish to wake up everyday to the sound of your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children;… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the… — Mencius Copy Share Image
People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful.… — Vinnie Jones Copy Share Image
If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events! — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
A majority of voters in a majority of constituencies voted to leave the E.U. I wish it wasn't so. — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I am a workaholic, and I sometimes wish that there were 48 hours in a day. But I know how to manipulate… — Divyanka Tripathi Copy Share Image
You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to any of your heroes. Become what you wish… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened. — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
