I Wish Quotes

Watching soccer just makes me wish I was watching Foosball.

I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.

That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I'd look them in the eyes and say, 'God almighty, I wish I'd have been there.'

Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors.

If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father

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.

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

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.

Live in such a way as, when you come to die, you will wish to have lived. [Ger., Lebe, wie Du, wenn du stirbst, Wunschen wirst, gelebt zu haben.]

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

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 . . .

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.

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.

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Industry need not wish.

I wish to walk in such a line as will give most general satisfaction.

The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

I am master of my own destiny, and I can make my life anything that I wish it to be.

Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away.

You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia

The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

I don't think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision.

Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people.

I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.