We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.
The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
What emotions would we experience if we weren't working ourselves to death? What wishes drive us? What fantasies hitch themselves to our continual busyness? Only when we step away from our frenzy can we know.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann. It showed me that if you want to say something, you have to let the language itself say it, because language is usually more meaningful than the mere content that one wishes to convey.
I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.
We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
Against the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became an infantryman. I went to Iraq and Afghanistan.
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
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.
