I Wish Quotes

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

That's a big love letter," she says, squinting. I know what I'm going to say and for a moment I wish there was a film crew documenting my day-to-day life: "I've got a big heart," I say.

Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.

It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.

Every child begins the world again.

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

[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.

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.

If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.

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

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.

You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.

I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!

Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.

Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

I don't really regret much. I know there are things that I've done that have been wrong, and wish I could do over again, but I feel it's all made me who I am today, and I'm very thankful for that.

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately.

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others.

I wish I lived next to Carnegie Hall. Then, if someone asked me how to get to my house, I would just say 'Practice, practice, practice, and then take a left.'

It takes spiritual authority to bless others. Many Christians say, "God bless you," but one clearly senses that although the words express a kind wish, they lack real spiritual authority.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play; to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack.

I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.

Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.

Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream.

The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.