I Wish Quotes

I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.

I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world inside out. And this starts right now.

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.

I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars

I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.

The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.

Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

When one chants the holy name of Krishna, Krishna dances on the tongue and one wishes one had thousands of ears and thousands of mouths with which to better appreciate the holy names of God.

I wish there were more young people in the big houses, but sometimes it's really hard for them to believe in the youth because they go for what's the most expected.

If you want to get somewhere in six months, you're not going to get there by wishing it.

A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.

Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him. "You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

When he frowned again, she was fairly sure that the nomenclature did not please him, and she found herself wishing she had been birthed to other syllables.

I always make a wish at 11:11, even if its something cheesy.

What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?

The public will not forgive us if their wish to leave is subject to a bitter and a divisive Conservative Party leadership race between Remain and Leave camps.

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so casting directors would call me in for more diverse roles.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

I don't wish my career on anyone.

Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

I believe in freedom of religion and freedom of choice and everybody do what they want to do. I don't wish to bring my beliefs onto other people.

My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.