There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love Patti Smith, Cat Power, girls who look so casual; that appeals to me 'cause I guess it's the opposite from what I do. But I can never let myself just do that - I always have to try and dress up and create something.

Bat for Lashes

That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?

Abdolkarim Soroush

History Freedom Wishes

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Abraham Lincoln

Young Man Young You

I do think that all of the well wishes have contributed to the fact that my treatment and recovery are going well.

Adam Yauch

Men Wishes Wish

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop

Would Wishes Wish

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

Al Yankovic

Respect History Art

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Aldous Huxley

Patriotism Great Car

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

Alfred Adler

Attitude Wishes Wish

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Alfred Nobel

Peace Good Alone

I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.

Alicia Silverstone

Life Art Wit

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.

Alison Gopnik

Work Wishes Wish

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Ambrose Bierce

Politics Wit Wishes

Am I the only person who wishes he could escape his own life for a few hours?

Andre Aciman

Life Wishes Wish

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

Andre Malraux

World Wishes Wish

Every mother wishes the best for her children.

Andrea Navedo

Wishes Wish Very

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

Andrew Jackson

Life Wishes Wish

Greece wishes to be part of the eurozone, but it must, of course, go through with the necessary reforms to make this happen.

Angela Merkel

Art Zone Wit

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

Anna Pavlova

Life Happiness Wishes

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

Anton Seidl

Sad Art Wishes

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

Antonin Scalia

Wishes Wish Why

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

Archibald MacLeish

Poetry Art Alone

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality.

Ariel Sharon

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

Aristotle

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.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Providing good education to all citizens is necessary if India wishes to be counted as a developed nation.

Arvind Kejriwal

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

Ashley Madekwe

Members of India's diaspora, living in distant lands of the world, my good wishes to all of you. You may be far away from India, but you are always close to our hearts.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

Athanasius

I keep my wishes and dreams secret, like a child.

Audrey Tautou

What feats of ingenuity have we not been forced to perform, at times, in order to meet our customers' wishes? Those only who have had charge of a large, modern kitchen can tell the tale.

Auguste Escoffier

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

Aung San Suu Kyi

It appears that President Trump wishes to disrupt the global multilateral trading system as much as possible.

Barry Gardiner

There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love Patti Smith, Cat Power, girls who look so casual; that appeals to me 'cause I guess it's the opposite from what I do. But I can never let myself just do that - I always have to try and dress up and create something.

Bat for Lashes

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

Ben Kingsley

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Benjamin Franklin

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.

Bernhard von Bulow

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

Section 7 of the Constitution doesn't grant a power for the king to do whatever he wishes.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.

Bill Nelson

My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.

Bill O'Reilly

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'

Bobby Knight

When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.

Brad Goreski

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

C. S. Lewis

In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.

Carla Hall

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Carlo Goldoni

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.

Catherine McAuley

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.

Cesare Beccaria

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Charles Baudelaire

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Charles Caleb Colton

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Charles Darwin

Impeachment must not be a raw exercise of political power in which the House impeaches whoever it wishes for any reason it deems sufficient. Indeed, it is the solemn duty of all of the members of the House in any impeachment case to exercise their judgment faithfully within the confines established by our Constitution.

Charles T. Canady