I Wish Quotes

Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff.

I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say.

I wish I’d played my whole career in flag football.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best friend, watching, and smiling, and wishing he had a mouth.

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.

Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love.

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

I wish I could play like Roger Federer.

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.