You Wish Quotes

#1. If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries.
[Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest.

Philip Plait

#3. Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life.

Leon Brown

#4. Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn't exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.

Brian Michael Bendis

#5. Be the person you wish to be, not who you are told to be.

Anna Glazebrook

#6. If you could wish on a star right now, what would you wish for?"I ask him.
"For time to stop.
"Why?"
He shrugs.
"Cause I could live forever at this moment.

Simone Elkeles

#7. The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

#8. If you were given one wish, what would you wish for? To wish no more.

J.R. Rim

#9. The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

Ramakrishna

#10. By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.

Norman Vincent Peale

#11. Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.

Colin Cunningham

#12. Things get complicated at times, so there are certainly moments when you wish your life were different. That's true for everybody, not just people in our profession. But there's nothing I feel like I gave up professionally. I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.

Laura Linney

#13. Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.

Jewel

#14. People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don't you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I recommend intense loneliness.

Seth

#15. You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

Keith Urban

#16. As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish ... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.

Andreas Feininger

#17. If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for

Zhuangzi

#18. Carbon is the basis of human life and iron of robot life. It becomes easy to speak of C/Fe when you wish express a culture that combines the best of the two on an equal but parallel basis.

Isaac Asimov

#19. Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

Ambrose Bierce

#20. What if you already are the person you wish you were but you just don't know it yet?

Debra Formo

#21. There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.

Gordie Howe

#22. you will need to figure out what you wish to do with your time." He said in a sickening and patronizing tone. He might as well have been talking to an aimless teenager flailing to launch into the world.

K.J. Kilton

#23. But do not misunderstand - I turned him to stone from compassion. Stone men have stone hearts, and stone hearts cannot be wounded or broken. I would show you the same compassion, if you wish it.

Miyuki Miyabe

#24. Green means you're green with envy. Green means you wish you were me.

Judy Moody

#25. Allow the power to flow through you. Don't try to capture it. You wish only to borrow it.

G.G. Collins

#26. If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

Francois Rabelais

#27. Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite.

Nas

#28. If you wish to be a writer, write.

Epictetus

#29. Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

Ellen G. White

#30. He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.

Orson Scott Card

#31. Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

Woodrow Wilson

#32. And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

Virginia Woolf

#33. If you set a clear standard for yourself; for how you wish to be treated - people take note.

Bryant McGill

#34. Well," I ask, leaning over him, "do you wish to stay?"
"I do."
"And why is that, Cole?" I say, tipping toward him so that our noses nearly brush.
"Well," he says with a smile, "the weather's quite nice.

Victoria Schwab

#35. Pet, I give you permission to be as vocal as you wish, because I am going to blow your mind in a few minutes and I want to hear how much you enjoy the ride.

Kallypso Masters

#36. Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#37. If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.

Chris Hardwick

#38. Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become ...

Brandon Sanderson

#39. As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

Juliet Aubrey

#40. Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.

Gallagher

#41. It's better to see life as it is, not as you wish it to be. Things don't happen for a reason. They just happen.

Nicola Yoon

#42. You wish me to tell you all of my secrets? I am grateful, but I am not in love.

Robert Jordan

#43. Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

John Bingham

#44. What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

Steve Buscemi

#45. If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.

Rumi

#46. You cannot go back in time, even if you wish it with every fiber of your being, your heart and soul, even if you think about it every day. Trust me. I know.

Pleasefindthis

#47. I know you're thinking that you've been shut down for so long, you don't know how to wake up. That all these messy feelings I bring out in you make you wish you'd never met me.

Leisa Rayven

#48. You are important enough to invest the time and energy needed for the change you want. Commit to becoming the person you wish to be and carve out the time for what needs to be done!

Peter Walsh

#49. I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can.

Kathy Najimy

#50. When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe, but look only and surely at what are the facts.

Bertrand Russell

#51. Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

William Jones

#52. Life is not what you wish it to be, rather it's what you make it.

Steven Redhead

#53. The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

Napoleon Hill

#54. The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains.

Swami Brahmananda

#55. It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.

David Attenborough

#56. Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

Epictetus

#57. The real love is when you wish to give something and not to get.

Bill Kaulitz

#58. If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

Epictetus

#59. College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come.
We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.

Dan Rather

#60. When you become who you wish to be, there is no need for envy.

Wes Fesler

#61. If you wish to tell me what crime I have committed, explain to me in what a crime consists. For as my conscience does not accuse me, I aver that I am not a criminal.

Alexandre Dumas

#62. Depicting yourself as a whole person on the page doesn't only mean recognizing your role in a bad situation. It means being emotionally authentic. It means showing all of yourself: the shameful parts, the embarrassing parts, the parts that you might regret or that you wish weren't true.

Kerry Cohen

#63. Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? ... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

Epictetus

#64. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to any of your heroes. Become what you wish to be.

Andy Biersack

#65. Always treat children in the direction you wish them to grow, not as they now are.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#66. I'm sorry you never got to live the life you wanted. Or see the world. Have an adventure." He chuckled low in his throat. "Oh, no? I'd say we were having quite the adventure, you and I. They always said to be careful what you wish for, but I wouldn't listen.

Julie Klassen

#67. Generate the belief in what you wish to achieve.

Steven Redhead

#68. I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.

William Goldman

#69. Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Ayn Rand

#70. When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

Frederick Lenz

#71. You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

Publilius Syrus

#72. ...Our Lord's words to Peter, as recorded in St. John's gospel: 'When you are young, you go where you wish, but when you are old, others will take you where you do not wish to go.'...I have always thought that it is a general reflection about us all.

Jennifer Worth

#73. Look at me as many times as you wish,
but you won't get to know me!
Since you have last seen me,
I've changed a hundred times!

Rumi

#74. How do you wish to live in lifetime existence; envying, hating and loving? It is better to live life loving

Lailah Gifty Akita

#75. Make a wish," said Indigo.
Rose made a wish and then asked, "Why?"
"That's what I always do. Wish on the moving ones."
"Does it matter how fast they move?"
"I don't think so."
"Can you wish on airplanes, too?"
"Oh, yes.

Hilary McKay

#76. Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Jack Welch

#77. Value the quality of your articles over the number of articles you write. I know a lot of bloggers focus on writing as many articles as possible, but I've realized over the years that you cannot sacrifice quality if you wish to build a loyal following on your blog.

Jeet Banerjee

#78. Seek only to be genuine. Strive to be sincere. If you wish to undo all the "damage" you imagine yourself to have done, demonstrate that in your actions.

Neale Donald Walsch

#79. You can create the life you wish to have.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#80. Whatever it is that you wish to experience more of in your life, be the source of it in the life of another.

Neale Donald Walsch

#81. If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

Garry Kasparov

#82. Is there any reason you wish to preserve amity with the Shadowhunters, besides the fact that one of them is your lover?

Cassandra Clare

#83. It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Charles Baudelaire

#84. I am not empty. I am full to the brim with murder and revenge. I am overlfowing and I do not think you wish for me to overflow onto you.

Marissa Meyer

#85. Don't you wish you were Charles Bukowski? I can paint to. lift weights. and my little girl think that I am god. then other times, it's not so good.

Charles Bukowski

#86. You use your Bible like you were ordering from a restaurant menu. I call that Bible a la carte. You choose what parts of the Bible you wish to obey and what others to ignore.

Mark Segal

#87. I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization.
There is a proverb, which Tom was kind enough not to voice: be careful what you wish for. Unfortunately, not only did I get it, but so did those around me.

Marie Brennan

#88. Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

Girolamo Savonarola

#89. If you wish, you may. If you want, you can. If you are determined, you will.

Vinita Kinra

#90. You're unnerved by me, so you wish I'd leave the two of you alone to talk?" Vlad snorted. "Your personal discomfort means nothing to me, Hugh ... wait, that's not true. I enjoy it.

Jeaniene Frost

#91. Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what you call your life.

Steven Redhead

#92. BE what you wish to see!

Wayne C. Long

#93. There are three phrases that make possible the world of writing about the world of not-yet (you can call it science fiction or speculative fiction; you can call it anything you wish) and they are simple phrases: What if . . . ? If only . . . If this goes on

Ray Bradbury

#94. Hermes, we love you," Hades said, "but you rarely do as you're told, and you always do as you wish, and I haven't the slightest idea what you'd do with an immortality fruit, but I'm sure it would be both creative and disastrous.

Molly Ringle

#95. We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?

Rick Yancey

#96. If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.

Eugenio Maria De Hostos

#97. Made this card especially for you
because today's a special day,
I wanted it to be wonderful
I wanted it to say,
hope everything you wish for,
comes true on this your birthday.

Susan Smith

#98. Be careful of what you wish for because sometimes it just might come untrue.

Jonathan Dunne

#99. What you wish for in life someone already has
what you already have, someone else needs
What you take for granted, someone else is wishing for

Steven Aitchison

#100. The seeds you plant in the hearts and minds of others will be what you receive in return - 100-fold. Only sow that which you wish to receive in return. Sow good, receive good! Plant seeds daily in your Mary Kay business and your Mary Kay business will return to you.

Mary Kay Ash