Own Wishes Quotes
17 Own Wishes quotes by 17 unique authors
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When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.
— Sakyong Mipham
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Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
— Bertrand Russell
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I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.
— Virginia Woolf
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Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject…
— Margaret Thatcher
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People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom from women. Women…
— Malina Suliman
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In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing…
— Michael Haneke
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own…
— George Orwell
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We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
— George Eliot
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What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we…
— Margaret Atwood
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No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.
— Ovid
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
— Daniel Webster
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Some people forget their own wishes while fulfilling others.
— Melania
Who Wrote These Own Wishes Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Own Wishes Quotes as follows: