I Wish Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.]

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.

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

I see a lot of young kids hit me on Twitter all the time, like, 'I want to be famous! Listen to my mixtape! I wish I could be like you!' But a lot comes with it. It's not easy.

I wish for the thing that is best for me.

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?

I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.

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

My mom's always saying really smart things... like, you probably heard this one, 'Why buy the cow when the milk has HPV?' Wish I'd listened to that one.

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask.

Today is ours; what do we fear? Today is ours: we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish at least with us to stay.

One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.

I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought hats.

If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myself: ugh! I wish I would've thought of that!

All we can do about bullies is wish them happiness & celebrate our own.

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.'

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

I wish I was smaller. There are things about my face I'd change. But like all women I do the best I can.

Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing. Ten years later they have different plans to get out of dealing.

It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.