I Wish Quotes

At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."

It's good to see you, little one." He (Uncle Eddie) scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you.

I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up.

There is no one, however wicked, whom Mary does not save by her intercession when she wishes ... He who has recourse to Mary shall be saved.

I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.

I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.

Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.

Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.

Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.

I wish I could tell people what I'm directing next, but I can't.

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

I love doing voice-overs; I wish I could do more of them. It's a lot of fun to see how they take the voice and animate it and try to capture your own expressions and features. It's fascinating.

I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house.

Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine.

I just wish insignificance had more stature.

I wish I hadn't made so many images.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

I wish I could play the whole game and come back tomorrow.

Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.

I removed the window [tattoo] because, while I used to spend all my time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, I now live there all the time.

I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.

I know some of those 'Glee' people, and they can really sing! I wish we could hear them live, because I know some of them and they can really sing like nobody's business.

Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.

But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.

Stalkers lips curled into a sneer. "You won't make a move without him, huh? That's embarrassing." "No," I said softly. "It just hurts because you wish it was you.

Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother

I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!

He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.

I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.

Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.