I Wish Quotes

Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

I wish to improve my power, but not in a home run way.

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."

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.

He, who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have.

I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.

I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.

I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is entirely personal for me, and it has to be a natural process.

Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about

Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.

How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human.

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

A dream without a plan is just a wish

I wish I could be invisible and just play music and not have to worry about anyone looking at me.

In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn't be our style. ... Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory... lasts forever.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of one's egotism, which is a very different matter.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.

I really wish she had a different way of viewing things I think the city that we're from just kinda ruined things

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense.

Happiness wishes everybody happy.

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.

The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.

A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

I wish you to become who you ­were born to be. To become queen.

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)