The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.
Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.
I know my lies are always wishes.
Certainly everyone, in order to protect love, Certainly wishes to believe in something
The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very small number; and the life of the greater part of mankind must be lost in empty wishes and painful comparisons, were not the balm of philosophy shed upon us, and our discontent at the appearances of unequal distribution soothed and appeased.
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.
In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!
As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.
I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.
We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.
Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.
Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor