Wishes Quotes

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Euripides

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Will Durant

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Hannah Arendt

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Bertrand Russell

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

W. H. Auden

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

John Desmond Bernal

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

Aristotle

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

Josiah Royce

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Leonardo da Vinci

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Henri Frederic Amiel

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

George Orwell

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

C. S. Lewis

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rather

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Rabindranath Tagore

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

Tony DeLiso
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