Wish Quotes

I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

Franz Kafka
- Transparent
- Fluid
- Float
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde
- Gods
- Answer
- Prayers

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
- World
- Change
- Wish
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill
- Hope
- Desire
- Achievement
In fact, Mr. Watson, it's a queer world, and the longer I live in it the queerer I find it. Once I thought it would be a good idea to regulate things myself and run the world as it ought to be run; but I gave it up long ago. The world's a stage, they say; but the show ain't always amusing, by a long chalk, and sometimes I wish I didn't have a reserved seat.

L. Frank Baum
- Up
- World
- Good
I tell the story of these philosophers in simplified form: I merely wish to bring out in each system that point which represents a piece of the personality, and which history must preserve as a part of what is irrefutable and indisputable.

Friedrich Nietzsche
- History
- Wish
- Personality
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Jack Welch
- Reality
- Wish
- Face
With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.

Eddie Marsan
- Good
- Character
- Career