I Wish Quotes

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

Again--nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.

I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a lot of things that I don't get, like I do wish I had more of my own.

Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.

Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.

I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.

I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud.

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

I think we should only get 3 honks a month on the car horn. Then, someone cuts you off, you press the horn, and nothing happens. You're like, "Crap! I wish I hadn't seen Ricky on the sidewalk!"

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

Some things aren't to my taste and I wish they wouldn't have happened but they have been some of the best experiences to learn and grow from so I am grateful for every moment.

Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

With how much ease believe we what we wish!

I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.

You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Sometimes you just wish you could make a film and then have it on DVD so you can see your mom. But, no, I've never really had that moment. Not really. Not seriously.

For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.

Hanson? Yeah, I've heard of them, I saw them perform and they have an interesting sound. I wish them every success.

When I was a teenager, I was so dumb my mamma knocked me off the porch with a broom. You wish you had so good a mamma.

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

Angelina is my daughter and I am always wishing her the best.

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.

The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.