Wish Quotes

9049 Wish quotes by 4630 unique authors

It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish. The believability of… — Unknown Author
The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit — Friedrich August von Hayek
The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding… — John Bates Clark
It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of… — Benjamin Franklin
Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery. We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep ourselves from slipping… — Piero Ferrucci
There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the… — Charlotte Dacre
If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. — Prince Philip
A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had… — Marcus Buckingham
I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce… — Alan Titchmarsh
Peace with all the world is my sincerest wish. — George Washington
I saw this girl, she looks so sweet, I wonder why, I'm so scared to meet. I think about her everyday, I wake, I sleep… — Unknown Author
I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and… — William Barclay
A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he… — Charles Spurgeon
He always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret. — Mike Tyson
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. — Robert Frost
Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to… — Leo Tolstoy
I wish I'd watched less TV. — Billy Graham
How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much.… — Irving Fisher
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done;… — John Kenneth Galbraith
It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only… — Ludwig von Mises
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery. — Henri Frederic Amiel
With every rising of the sun, Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays; there let them… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was… — Immanuel Wallerstein

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