Small Wishful Quotes & Sayings

This reasoning is based on the wishful thinking that genius can only be earned through education and hard work. It denies the time-proven truth that genius can strike like a random bolt of lightning, at any time in any place, even in a humble glover's home in a small town in Elizabethan England. — Andrea Mays

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse. — Mario Puzo

I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft. — Hayley Williams

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

The German deli was run by a distant cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Great Neck Jews loved the place; they flocked to Kuch's. They said to one another, What a character he is, Otto, strictly old country, I'm telling you. Gus didn't think that Negroes would rush to shop in a store run by some retired slave owner, eager to share memories of fun times on the plantation, praising Massa's old-fashioned Mississippi charm. Jews were still chasing that absurd, wishful feather. Eventually, Jews would become like everybody else. They'd elevate small grievances; they'd cherish hurt feelings and ill treatment like they were signs of virtue. — Amy Bloom

Being tough means looking straight at something ugly, and saying, "That's ugly; I'll have to find a way to deal with it." And doing so. — Robert B. Parker

I don't believe in the electric cars, but I strongly believe in hybrids. — Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo

Tomorrow, he told himself. Tomorrow he would face Weep, and his duty, and the nightmares that stalked him. Somehow, he would find the courage to finish what he had started fifteen years ago, and free his people from this last vestige of their long torment.
Even if he could never free himself. — Laini Taylor

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool. — Bruno Tonioli

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome. — Joan Didion

The giant deer took a leap to the downhill side, and then high-stepped around and past me, walking, not running, as if having known all along what decision I would make during this most perfect of days in one of the most perfect seasons, and situated perfectly and halfway between who I used to be and who I was on my way to becoming. — Anthony Licata

Forgive me," Ash murmured, and I heard the faintest of tremors beneath his voice. "But I can't ... I won't ... give her up. Not now, when I've just found her."
-Ash — Julie Kagawa

I'm drowning in papers. — Wislawa Szymborska

When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture. — Zach Woods

For me, and people like me, fighting isn't what we do; it's who we are. — Chael Sonnen

Adam could imagine what he looked like: a debauched nerd. — Heidi Cullinan

They were gone and I missed them but even so I was very happy. For the rest of my life no matter where on this planet earth I went and no matter how scared or confused I got, I could wait until dark and look up into the night sky and see my three friends again and my heart would swell with love of them and make me strong and clearheaded. — Russell Banks