He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.
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 England.
I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.
There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.
I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and otherworldly. My wish is for the narrative in the pictures to work within that circumstance. It is that sense of in-between-ness that interests me.
Don't sacrifice what you wish for most for what you wish for now
I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.
Some things aren't to my taste and I wish they wouldn't have happened but they have been some of the best experiences to learn and grow from so I am grateful for every moment.
Wishing is a goal without energy behind it.
I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!
He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.
More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.
I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live
You’re going to have some very amazing capabilities in the economy. When we have computers that can do more and more jobs, it’s going to change how we think about work. There’s no way around that. You can’t wish it away.
If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, "Don't film me anymore," [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them; he just respected their wishes.
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.
You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.
People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.