Top 580 Wishing Quotes & Sayings

I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

Wishing of all employments is the worst

Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would reach enough people who would be willing to pay me for the music, that I would actually be able to live off of just writing the songs that I wanted to write. But I don't think I really admitted to myself that that was my goal.

He wasted his wishes on wishing.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

During the war, there were people wishing me death, wishing my son death, wishing my wife death in very graphic ways. In the past, I would go overseas and I would say, "Israel is like my family: we disagree, but we're all brothers." I can't say that anymore, because life proves me wrong.

Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.

Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.

What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her.

Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.

I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.

The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.

I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.

Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

All the happiness there is in the world arises from wishing others to be happy.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Angelina is my daughter and I am always wishing her the best.

Wishing there were more children's books like 'The Snowy Day' is a bit like wishing there were more grownup books like 'Anna Karenina.' There are only so many masterpieces out there.

Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.

There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically unified world, wishing well to oneself is sure to be futile unless it is combined with wishing well to others.

I remember I was, like, 6 years old when I found out that I was having a little brother, and I was wishing and wishing for a sister. When my mom came out and my dad, and they're like, 'It's a boy,' Spencer, my twin brother, is cheering and jumping up and down, and then I burst into tears. I was so sad. I was crying.

Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.

Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought this many, many times before. With perfect misunderstanding she interpreted his passivity as disdain. Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face. Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

Wishing of all employments is the worst.

I'm always wishing for more intrigue and meaty stuff to do as an actor.

If you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

Wishing is a goal without energy behind it.

No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office.

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.

Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me - because I recognized that, within me, there is this flame, of wishing it were better, wishing people had better lives, that there was more of an authentic sharing and harmony with nature.

I wish I knew the good of wishing.

Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.

Keep dreaming, wishing and planning. There's immeasurable power in it.

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

Be sensitive to subtle differences between 'intuition' and 'into wishing'.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Work while others are wishing.

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.

All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in this world Arises from wishing oneself to be happy.

No use wishing now for any other sin.

It is no good wishing for what was not to be.

Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.