I Wish Quotes

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.

War ought to be no man's wish.

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.

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.

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

Many people who live in the USA feel blessed to live in a free country with many opportunities. For this reason, many try to come to the USA, and few ever wish to leave it.

Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession.

I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."

The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager.

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.

I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

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

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

I wish I knew the good of wishing.

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.

I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

I wish you way more than luck.

I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.

By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again.

I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.