I Wish Quotes

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

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.

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

They're out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

Stress is caused by our resistance to what already is. Even our difficulties we need to accept. My greatest wish is to do God's will.

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

I wish I was a guy who could have pancakes and bacon and cheesy eggs, but I'd curl up and pass out. I gotta start healthy or I'll be off the rails all day.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.

The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

He wasted his wishes on wishing.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.

People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."

All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.

I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.

I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: "Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened" is one of the funniest lines in any film.

As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.

Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.

All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

Picture what others wish to be, not what they may be now

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.