I Wish Quotes

A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.

Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.

Catch-22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon...remarkable... This is a book that I could wish everyone to read. It is a book which should help us feel more clearly

If you wish to study men you must not neglect to mix with the society of children.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.

I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.

Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.

I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.

A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country.

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would wish for anything. And that would be so much sadder.

I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

I'm scared of you two in the same place. That's like putting in an order for trouble, rather than just wishing for it.

So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

I got back to my hometown, and everyone is like, "I wish I could retire at 39." So they put it in perspective.

Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

All wish to know, but few the price will pay.

Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam Posse volunt.]

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.

Your mind is a tool you can choose to use any way you wish.

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.

If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.

If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel,then give me a strong blade, and enough strength, to shatter fate

How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.

Lots of birthday wishes Are sent to you today Hope your day will be One of the best You've ever had!

I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.