My Wish Quotes

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.

I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.

I don't wish to be anything more or less than what I am. If this is how it is, then so be it.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetration & acumen. They have robbed us of the bloom.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

I wish we weren't fighting all the time to protect women's rights, to protect women's health.

I wish ghosts were real!

I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.

It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

I wish we could edit our lives, be more selective with whom we spend time and what we spend our money on. To appreciate more what we all have - we appreciate things more when we lose them.

I wish that I myself did have faith in God, that I had a religion, sometimes. But not always.

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

I wish my name was Tom Kite.

I'm a fifth generation Washingtonian and I was born and raised here. My kid's a sixth generation Washingtonian. Honestly I wish people didn't move because I love the people of the city.

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it.

I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.

Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.

I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.

Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I'm dealing with it. I wish I'd done this years ago because it's been really helpful.

Schedules are impossible to me. I am excited to be on tour, but there are instances when I wish that I wasn't managed. The shows are fun, but six hour drives burn me out.

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

Truthfully, I wish I had a daily routine. It's hard being an actor because you never have a set schedule.

I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.

When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably knows what he is talking about. I just wish he hadn't told me.

Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

There's no such thing as a wasted wish.

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.