I Wish Quotes

We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.

I wish I could relate to the people I'm related to.

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

You are the dream I live with; you are the wish I'd made, the name I always whisper in every prayer I pray ... now that you left me, while you forget me, I'll hold you in my dreams.

I wish to work miracles.

I wish to have a muscular body.

I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it.

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

I don't play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I'd like to have a crack at one of those guys. A heartbreaker. Some people are born to it. I'm not.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.

You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.

I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you really are. I'm going home now.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country....and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

I hate thinking about what I'm doing. I wish I didn't think about it at all.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

I don't wish to inhabit the human world under false pretences.

I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, For some things are ill to wait.

I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine

Every driven person comes from a mountain of pain they wish to keep hidden.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.

Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.

If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

All of us wish we had an Alice. I wish I had an Alice.

I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings.

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it.

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.