I Wish Quotes

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

A wish is a desire without energy

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

If you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world.

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'

We can't tell our life from our wish

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.

None love, but they who wish to love.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.

I wish I were more disciplined.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

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

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.

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

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.

Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.

I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.

Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed.

I'm far from perfect. There's a lot of times you'll say something that you regret or do something that you regret and wish you wouldn't have said it or done it.

The big question is, are we letting ourselves become what we wish to become?

Sending you sincere condolences and the wish that the passing of time eases your sorrow.

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.

If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.

Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.

We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.