Wishes Quotes

We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

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 in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

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 wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.