I Wish Quotes

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.

I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?

I wish I had that carefree lifestyle. But I guess I'm more private, and more inside.

I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

The Statue of Liberty really is profound, I just wish she'd lighten up a bit.

I realize that you have to be careful sometimes what you wish for.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.

Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?

I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

My name is Squirrelpaw, but I never thought I'd wish I was one!

We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands.

He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.

If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

When we're able to resign ourselves to the wishes that will never come true, there can be enormous energies available within us for whatever we CAN do.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.

If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

we wish for more in life rather than more of it.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

There's a part of me that wishes I had gone to school and gotten a business degree, because I almost wonder if that wouldn't be more helpful than my theater degree, in some ways.

The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.