I Wish Quotes

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.

From soul to soul, and heart to heart. May you be blessed, I wish to impart.

You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable.

I fear looking back and wishing I had done things I hadn't.

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.

I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.

John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish Id had the chance to make more music with him, of course, and to get to know him better.

I wish I believed I'd see my parents again, see my wife again. But I know it's not going to happen.

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.

I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

Many dreams is what we had and plenty wishes.

I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.

Nobody makes a movie about a woman in her mid-30s who wishes she could have met someone to have children with and still doesn't know where to find a date.

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it.

I really wish there had been a way to phrase this as 'A thunder of worms.' Because I like that phrase. That's a phrase with soul. Worm thunder on the horizon, all is right with the cosmos.

I wish I could have a clone to do all the stuff that I don't like doing, like the red carpet stuff.

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.

It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish.

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.

Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now with the plummeting approval ratings of both the administration and Congress.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

All Wishes are not from HEART !!!

I think watching my mom gave me great inspiration, I wish that had been reinforced more verbally. It would have kept me from a lot of pain.

We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

Leonardo DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.

This is not our job, but we always follow the actions of our European partners closely and we wish them luck.

Of course, this person is to have the trust of the American people, then he or she would not only have the wish but also the supported political will to implement all these agreements.