I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.
You get what you work for, not what you wish for.
We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability. . . We do not wish to be crudely manipulated. . . We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.
I wish I could just fling myself into bed with you, but I can’t. I don’t want to be used that way and I don’t want to use you! Can’t you understand that?
If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.
Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.
Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change.
I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.
I’d trade my soul for a wish.
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.
Just a tiny red sliver remains in the battery icon. I wish humans came with the same kind of indicator. . . it would make things much easier. You would know how to deal with every person on the planet, and I’d always be in the red.
I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.
To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.
My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
For once you rise to a level of God consciousness you will understand that you are not responsible for any other human soul, and that while it is commendable to wish every soul to live in comfort, each soul must choose - is choosing - its own destiny this instant.
I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.
We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. . . . We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person.
Thanks for everything. ” “As you wish,” the captain said. If axes could frown, I’m sure he would have. “Stay sharp,” Carter told him.
We can't tell our life from our wish