I Wish Quotes

There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful

Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

We came to serve God and to get rich, as all men wish to do.

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.

Honestly I'm not a huge TV person. The only show that I've seen every episode of is 'Pretty Little Liars.' It's my favorite show. I wish I could get into other shows, but I just don't have time!

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?" "That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?

If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together. -Dimitri to Rose on their relationship

I wish I could have skipped college.

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

Some things youll never know, and some things youll wish you never knew.

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

The phrase "Be Good to Each Other" is very important to me and something that I wish had been said more when I was in high school.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

I want my legacy to be greater freedom, greater prosperity and a better way of life for my family, our employees and all Americans. And I wish the same for every nation on earth.

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands.

The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no piano like it in the world.

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.