Wish Quotes

9049 Wish quotes by 4630 unique authors

The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists.… — Betty Friedan
The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do… — George F. Kennan
Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true. — Edward Abbey
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier… — Edward Abbey
Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies. — Edward Abbey
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary.… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make… — Frederic Bastiat
I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women… — Henry Adams
Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all… — Thomas Jefferson
Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society. — Thomas Jefferson
You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you… — George Washington
At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of… — George Washington
I wish we had all been born birds instead. — Kurt Vonnegut
Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute. — Bruno Mars
If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of… — Carl Jung
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed… — Sigmund Freud
What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes. — Sigmund Freud
Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire… — Erich Fromm
Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it. — Unknown Author
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is… — Allan Bloom
How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a great… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn through experience and… — Viola Spolin
There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become… — Michel Foucault

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