We Wish Quotes

386 We Wish quotes by 295 unique authors

I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love… — Ayn Rand
Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present- not where we wish we were,… — Thomas Sowell
Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if… — Carl Sagan
We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live… — Milan Kundera
We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those… — Tim O'Brien
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish… — Rollo May
If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish… — William S. Burroughs
We are the nation of dreams. We are seers. We are wizards. We speak in visions. Our letters are like flocks of doves, released from… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of… — Andrew Sean Greer
Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours… — Frederick Buechner
There has to be a balance, Vin," Elend said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need… — Brandon Sanderson
That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we… — Charles Frazier
You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation. — Ayn Rand
Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise… — Hillary Clinton
In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become. — Carl Jung
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story.… — Oliver Sacks
Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go. — Alain de Botton
We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect. — Robert Jordan
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on… — Margaret Atwood
We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie. — Michael Ondaatje
A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or… — R.J. Ellory
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them,… — Grant Morrison
We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change. — Erin Morgenstern
When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the… — Joan Didion

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