I Wish Quotes

I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.

I feel very jealous towards women who can say, "I'm going to stay home and be a mom." I wish that's what fulfilled me but I like to work and I have to have something for myself.

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.

I don't wish that I didn't have the screaming girls.

I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.

I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.

Trump said that he hoped bin Laden suffered a lot. It looks like he got his wish, because the CIA said bin Laden spent his last hour watching 'Celebrity Apprentice.'

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

What I wish for myself is that I could be the kind of person who just goes, 'This is what I need,' and doesn't feel bad about it.

I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.

I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.

In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.

I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one's age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces.

When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.

The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness.

A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.

I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.

I wish I had more time to sit down and be a little bit more normal.

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.

I wish my mind was a dog and I could train it to go sit.

When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish-as long as your feet keep on moving.

What's a farmer's market without some guy singing Here Comes The Sun in a way that makes you wish the sun would stop coming up.

All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

Diminish us across the board. They [Russians] do not wish us well.

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.

Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.

Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome.

Sometimes I wish I could just wear the same thing every day. Cartoons do it. It’d make things a lot easier

I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

Still, at the end of the day, I was really proud of [ Gigi Does It]. I wish more people had seen it. I wish it was more available, so people would see it now.

According to a new survey, people who get divorced die early. People who stay married live longer. The difference is they just wish they were dead.