I Wish Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

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

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 wish you all a long and happy life

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.

As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists.

I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

I like my voice, but I can't deliver as much as I wish I could.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

You should really stop worrying, develop the real wish to live and with a good motivation, [such as] "I have a better life and I can put that life at the benefit of others."

It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard. I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.

The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us.

In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.