I Wish Quotes

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.

You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

I wish I wasn't eating Cheetos every night. Those are my favorite - I'm addicted to them!

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper

Certainly everyone, in order to protect love, Certainly wishes to believe in something

There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.

[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."

What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.

I wish Elton Brand the best. He's a great guy. He's always going to be a great friend of mine, regardless of what goes on.

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

(Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.

There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

I wish I didn't have any flaws! I think everybody is flawed.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.

Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.

Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.

The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.

The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.

Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

I wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.

The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.

Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.