I Wish Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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

Watching soccer just makes me wish I was watching Foosball.

In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

The Cloud Maze. “ An Excursion in Dimension A Climb Though the Firmament; There Is No Beginning There Is No End Enter Where You Please Leave When You Wish Have No Fear of Falling

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way.

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's a terrible place to live.

Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes