Top 1200 Wishing For Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

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

The noise that we can expect in the future will only increase and we'll be wishing for rural Portugal or something like that.

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

My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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

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

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

How many times have we come away from an argument wishing we had said and done something different?

I'm just not the same. Half of me is out there looking for you and the other half is wishing i didn't have to." I don't want to live - I want to love first, And live incidentally. Don't-don't ever think of the things you can't give me-You've trusted me with the dearest heart of all-and it's so damn much more than anybody else in all the world has ever had.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.

Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

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

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

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

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

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