I Wish Quotes

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

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

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.

I'm 5 foot 2. I wish I were 5' 6. Everyone who meets me says, 'Oh my God. You look so much taller in person.'

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish to be: truly intersubjective beings.

Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.

If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light.

Embracing yourself is important and I wish that all women would realize how beautiful they are, inside and out.

It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.

What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone's wish is to become a leader....Let us become a real servant instead.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.

What we pluralists have to do is to say to the people standing on the faith line, particularly the young ones, no, pluralism is the wish of the creator. It is the greatest opportunity for humanity.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

None love, but they who wish to love.

Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!

The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics.

The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.

We must be the compassion we wish to see in others!

Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that we'd ever name a car on Top Gear. I wish I hadn't said that.

When you get people who are out of office, suddenly their tongues loosen up and suddenly they say the things that you wish they'd said or did when they were in office.

Life is about making mistakes. Death is about wishing you made more.

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.