I Wish Quotes

I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

What are the questions you wish to ask?

Trust me: I dont wish I was a New Zealander.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.

I wish James Dean would never have died. Then he'd be fat and acting on Dynasty or something. There wouldn't be this whiny-boy act that's so prevalent everywhere.

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

I don't even know why somebody's Twittering as me. I don't understand it, and I wish that it would stop. But there's nothing that can be done. It's so terrible.

Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

I haven't figured out why people like what they like. I don't know. I wish I did. I could sell that to everybody, man, and be a millionaire.

I'm a big fan of the game. Seeing these young guys play at the level that they are, I just wish I was 22, 23 years old so I can handle the game the way they do.

I never wish for critics.

I wish I was sort of someone like Woody Allen who can stage everything in one long master shot, no coverage; just, you know, that's it.

I wish I had more time to write.

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.

You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.

Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one

The lustful glances thrown his way made me wish he wasn’t such a damned bowl of eye candy." - Cat re: Bones

Much as we might wish it, looks don't always last forever. That's why, if you're looking for a long-term relationship, it's extremely important to take into consideration qualities that will last.

You might be a redneck if you wish your outhouse was as nice as those at the state park.

I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.

All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.

Yeah, it's just a lame term. I wish it was "movie star." That's a much better term than celebrity.

He realized something was going on between Logan and me. I wish he'd clue me in on exactly what it was, because I had no idea.

I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.

A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself.

I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of. It's something that I wish just wasn't there.

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away."

Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.

I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'