Words matter. These are the best Wishes Quotes from famous people such as Richard Morris Hunt, Gino D’Acampo, Eric Alterman, Martin Luther, Francois de La Rochefoucauld, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it’s up to you to do it.
I think every lady wishes their husband would cook.
Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don’t kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.
We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.
It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
In the time of social media, I get lots of wishes. It’s overwhelming! What makes the day most special is the love I get from my fans, who try to make the occasion extra special. Almost 50 days before my birthday, they have started making plans. In fact, I have been receiving letters, too.
Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.
Things don’t always happen the way one wishes they would.
Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn’t mean only artistic creativity, although that’s part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.
The Iranian regime doesn’t express the wishes and values of the Iranian people.
Section 7 of the Constitution doesn’t grant a power for the king to do whatever he wishes.
Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.
If Deja wasn’t my sister, I feel like I would still be motivated but not in the way that I am today. Having a disabled sister, that’s a lot more motivation, especially when she tells you growing up that she wishes she can be out there with the kids playing and she wishes she can be out there running around.
A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in the past to the changing circumstances of the present.
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
I really felt like it was a dangerous trap to get into, having had such great success with ‘Wishes,’ it just wasn’t in my blood not to play it safe and just do that again.
Flying gives me a tremendous sense of freedom and I hope that anyone who wishes to learn has the opportunity to do so.
The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes – and with it, the guilt.
Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and…. I’m Mrs. Cibrian!
If government wishes to see a depression ended as quickly as possible and the economy returned to normal prosperity, what course should it adopt? The first and clearest injunction is: Don’t interfere with the market’s adjustment process.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
It’s definitely an issue if the actor has passed away without stating any intention or desire about how his or her likeness should be dealt with. Then it falls to their estate. That’s a problem that will start solving itself. Now the technology exists, and actors are aware of this and can make their wishes known.
To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.
The WB never treated us well, so we didn’t expect a lot of farewell wishes and flowers or cards.
I try not to judge my characters. If I’m looking at it from the outside, I’d say, ‘No, she’s not really a great mother.’ But she wishes she were, and she wants to be, and she still has instincts toward protecting her son and wanting him to be a happy person.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.
All a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It’s still their ball game. It’s their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director’s impulses.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
John Cena has granted more wishes than anybody in history. He goes the extra mile.
A God Jar is anything you wish it to be, in which you can put your wishes, dreams, problems, prayers. You may want to think of it as a spiritual mailbox.
The world probably wishes that Great Britain had rebuilt its defenses and stopped Germany from reoccupying the Rhineland in 1936.
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
The window in which it’s acceptable to listen to Ella Fitzgerald’s 1960 record ‘Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas’ is short, so I keep it in heavy rotation throughout the festive season.
One of my main wishes in wanting to write about my mother was to explore the impact of her death on my life, explore our relationship, think about the different versions of myself that I was with and without her. I also had the really strong wish to bring her to life for my children, who were born after she was gone.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
There is no hint that Trump wishes to engage in or to foment violence against the enemies, such as immigrants, he has identified as undermining the American way of life.
I will miss my pal Dominick Dunne. I am sure his funeral will be just the sort of event he would have loved. Based on who will be there, I am sure he wishes he could have been there to cover it.
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
Am I the only person who wishes he could escape his own life for a few hours?
The ideal is a world in which every woman and girl can create the kind of life she wishes to lead, unconstrained by harmful norms and stereotypes.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.
The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The ‘where’ and ‘how’ of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
I love getting up in the morning. I love coming to my office. I love going to movie sets. It’s really what every parent wishes for their kid – to do what makes them happy.
When I’m done, I want to be known as the fighter that everybody wishes they could’ve seen live.
In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency – money – the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.
