I Wish Quotes

In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.

The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.

You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

I know my lies are always wishes.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas.

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

Hellboy was entirely the comic I wish someone much more talented than I was doing, because I would have been a huge fan of that comic. But nobody was doing it, so it fell to me to do it.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

The purpose of life is to live your dreams, you should never smother your wishes.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

I wish I could say I had any idea what I was doing when I designed characters. I just take things I like and make my version of it.

A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

Place your attention on what you wish to experience.

I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

I wish you all a long and happy life

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

You get what you work for, not what you wish for.

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.