I Wish Quotes

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.

I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.

Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love.

What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.

Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.

I wish I could do an entire spa day.

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself

I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.

If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.

Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.

You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for.

I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.

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)

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 wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

it was first love. There's no love like that. I don't wish it on a soul. I don't hate anyone enough.

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

I hate flossing, I wish I just had one long curvy tooth. They didn't have to make separations for me.

Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.

I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.