Top 1200 Wishing For Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.

Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

I certainly do believe that a lot of comedy comes from awkwardness and embarrassment - pointing out the ways things are uncomfortable. Definitely the stuff that interests me. I don't necessarily think that comedy comes from a dark place, like you have to be a strung-out heroin addict. But I don't think it comes from happiness, that's for sure. It comes from frustration and suppressed rage, and wishing the world were different.

Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.

Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been different, we could have spared ourselves all kinds of suffering. More recently it's been turned into a comedic trope. As we go forward, tragedy plus time equals comedy...

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

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

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.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

I wish I knew the good of wishing.

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

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

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

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

No use wishing now for any other sin.

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

You can show your love to others by not wishing that they should be better Christians.

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

I like to do things that are publicly embarrassing, to feel the embarrassment touch me and sink into me and then be gone. I like getting on elevators and singing too loudly in that small space. The feeling you feel is almost like a vapor. The discomfort and the wishing that it would end that comes around you.

Wishing of all employments is the worst

Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all these gems, maybe something to hold them in a continuity that I can comprehend.

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

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

My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether it be arguing about having a nicer package - because I do believe some people care about that - to trying to always bank on art-versus-the-easy-commerce route; there's always been headbutting involved.

The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.

I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Wishing is a goal without energy behind it.

I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun.

We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity

I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

What about you?" "Not a clue. I keep wishing I could bake a cake or something.

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

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

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

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

There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.

The only thing harder than waiting on God, is wishing that you had!

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

Wishing of all employments is the worst.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

That’s the really annoying thing about love. I probably would be happier if I didn’t know it, but once you do know it, once you feel those things for someone, you can’t make yourself really wish it away. It’s like wishing away . . . your soul. - Jenny

All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.

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

I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

He wasted his wishes on wishing.

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

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

Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.

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

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

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Work while others are wishing.

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

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

For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.