I Wish Quotes

Be the leader you wish you had.

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

I wish that people could love more.

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

I will never forget my time with Athletic Club and I'd like to thank the fans and staff for all their support and, above all, wish all my fantastic former team-mates all the best for the future.

I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.

People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.

I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".

Do you wish to see clearly and be free?

I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time.

I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me

A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.

Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a street.

I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

Hey guys! Wish you were here, except not really. We're having fun. Check it out-the pyramids! -Alec and Magnus

I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.

I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish it were more rough than it is.

A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.

...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.

Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.

I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.

I wish it was that easy to get turned on for me - at this point, I need a bottle of Belevere and a fighterjet.

As far as I know, no one in the Kaufman or Hart clan was the basis for anyone in the play. I think we all wish we had a Grandpa, Penny, and Mr. De Pinna in our families.

I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.