I Wish Quotes

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.

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

Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.

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

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.

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

[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him.

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.

I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.

Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

It's a free country. I wish it weren't.

Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

It's a great role for any age. Any actress wishes they would find a screenplay that means as much to them as "Aquarius" meant to me, as a person and a citizen.

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.

Some wish that I was gone, cause they know I'ma win.

My whole family, all they talk about is food and disease. And they're competitive with illness: I have a cold. I wish I had a cold! I don't even have sinuses anymore.

One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.

Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves

I wish thy way. And when in me myself should rise, and long for something otherwise, Then Lord, take sword and spear And slay.

Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw

i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me

A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

You become what you believe - not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.