I Wish Quotes

He makes it look easy. You wish there was another league he could get called up to.

I wish I was like you! You know startled by direct sunlight.

The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect.

I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.

There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.

Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

[Miley Cyrus] got a fantastic voice. I do think she's a fantastic artist and does great songs. I wish her all the best.

There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.

I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

It is impossible to reduce, or, at least, to hold a distant country against the wishes and efforts of its inhabitants.

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

Wishing of all employments is the worst

What ardently we wish, we soon believe.

What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too.

God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.

I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.

One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.

I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.

TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.

You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.

I decided long ago that my family absolutely comes first, and I don't regret that. I do, however, sometimes wish I had an extra five hours or so in the day!

I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.

Like a heart, and I wish mine wasn't beating.

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.

Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .

I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.