Quotes on Wish

If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

A wish is a desire without energy

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

When you meet someone, you can silently send them a blessing, wishing them happiness, joy and laughter. This kind of silent giving is very powerful.

I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.