Top 1200 Wishing For Something Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

This one's for you, and I truly hope you hear me, Through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey.

As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes.

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.

Wishing, hoping, and dreaming without an action plan - is nothing more than a pipe dream!

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear..." ?!?!

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

That love, in the sense of wishing their happiness, will cause your actions to be effective in relation to that person.

My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.

For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!

There is a tremendous rise now in feminine awareness and wishing for equality, equal opportunities.

I don't take anything for granted. I know there are a million and one dudes who are rapping, wishing they were in my shoes.

Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.

Without wishing to sound pretentious, my basic standard of happiness is to do with being who I am.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Don't spend time wishing your life away, waiting for things to be perfect.

Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.

Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the people, he must put himself behind them. In this way, though he has his place above them, the people do not feel his weight; though he has his place before them, they do not feel it as an injury. Therefore all mankind delight to exalt him, and weary of him not.

You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You can’t say ‘If only I’d…’ because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you’ll never know. You’ve gone past. So there’s no use thinking about it.

Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

When I look on my mantelpiece and see these cards wishing me a happy 100th birthday, I can't believe it.

Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen.

You have to have a plan. This isn't wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation - like, 'I hope one day ...' - let's claim it now.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all.

Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.

All day long I keep wishing, let partition be a past now. It should only remain a part of history.

I'm scared of you two in the same place. That's like putting in an order for trouble, rather than just wishing for it.

The political vibe of late-'40s Hollywood through the mid-'50s is something we're seeing a lot of echoes of right now, and in a scary way, where I'm wishing for an Edward R. Murrow to stand up and start somehow calling people on stuff. But as far as the way the industry works, I feel like we're in a place where you see companies slowly moving back to only doing their own stuff.

I'm definitely a frustrated musician, though it's more in terms of wishing I was a better guitar player and songwriter. But I've never regretted becoming an actor instead. I think it's been a more pure form of self-expression for me. I luckily found something that I could aspire to be good at, whereas I never... I think I'd never quite reach that level of artist that I enjoy in the music world.

People around you that you feel you're close to, are they really wishing you good things, you know?

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.

I love working with children because, as an only child, I grew up always wishing for siblings.

When you stop searching, wanting and wishing things - only then they start appearing.

In the short term, it absolutely feels devastating to break a bond of friendship. In the long term, it is the best possible thing. You're actually doing something noble and good if you do it in the right way. You can leave them with, "I wish you the best, but I have to take care of myself." Or you don't have to wish them the best. It's okay if you don't. Maybe they don't deserve the best. That's not up to you to decide. You not wishing someone the best is not going to make anyone's life not the best.

What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, I'm as near to being the perfect dog owner as it is possible to be.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

Stop wishing for things you complain you have not, and start making the best of all that you've got.

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.