I Wish Quotes

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

I do wish I ruled the world, I think it'd be a better place.

After dating for five years, my relationship with Irina Shayk has come to an end. We believed it would be best for both of us to take this step now. I wish Irina the greatest happiness.

If you wish to marry well, inquire well.

No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.

Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.

I wish I was old Hollywood.

I wish I were that cat.

I wish to emphasize the fact that our homes should be more attractive and that more of our amusements should be in the home instead of the streets.

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason

What we wish, that we readily believe.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

I'm past carrying out some of the wishes that I would have wanted to do before, but I still dream about what I would like to do if I was able to do so.

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.

I really love 'Soapdish.' I wish 'Soapdish' had more of a moment because I felt that that is a really strong, funny movie. Kevin Kline is hilarious in that movie.

Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war.

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.

Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

Did you ever know that you're my hero, you're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings.

It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.

All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.

I made lots of movies while in school while everybody else was running around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish they'd give me some film."

I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.

I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

By meditating on affectionate love and wishing love for just one moment we accumulate greater merit than we would by giving food three times every day to all those who are hungry in the world.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.

I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.