Wish Quotes

• If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Today
  • Answers

• Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Wish
  • Prey
  • Judiciously

• Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.

  

  William McKinley
  • Justice
  • Winning
  • Military

• I wish that the world's food was spread evenly on everybody's plate, and that no-one got more or less than anyone else.

  

  Arthur Potts Dawson
  • World
  • Food
  • Wish

• I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.

  

  Colin Marston Behold... The Arctopus
  • Wish
  • Enjoy
  • Miserable

• Definitely, I'm always nice. Sometimes I wish I could be naughty, I'm just a little too boring.

  

  Gabrielle Dennis
  • Nice
  • Wish
  • Naughty

• I know when I was little, having my Thai mom, even I was weird about fish sauce and fish heads and clams. I kind of sided with my dad because he was a big American guy. So, we were very meat and potatoes, but I really wish I had grown up appreciating my mom's taste a bit more.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Up
  • American
  • Guy

• I’ll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don’t want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue.

  

  Charles Montgomery
  • Opportunity
  • Church
  • Sweet

• I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Black
  • Wish

• It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you.

  

  Cornplanter
  • People
  • Wish
  • Quietly

• Drying up in conversation You will be the one who cannot talk All your insides fall to pieces You just sit there wishing you could still make love.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Conversation

• I'm always travelling and spend a lot of time in airports so I know what it feels like to get a personal welcome home. I wish I got more of them.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Travelling
  • Airports
  • Welcome Home

• I must say here in France I had more serenity or security as I was working because I knew I was making the film the way I wished and that the film would be seen, ultimately, which is not always the case in Iran. In Iran, you always work having in mind this worry of will I be able to carry on my project as I wish and will the audience see the film.

  

  Asghar Farhadi
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Worry

• To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another's unhappiness. So then, what exactly should I pray for? Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.

  

  Chica Umino
  • Happiness
  • Own
  • Unhappiness

• Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • May
  • Nature
  • Needs

• My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

  

  Garance Dore
  • Reading
  • Role
  • Awareness

• Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Soul
  • Desire
  • Wish

• Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now.

  

  Amanda Filipacchi
  • Wish
  • Make
  • Hopes

• I wish more Americans would travel here. I always encourage my friends: 'Travel. See the Middle East. There's so much to see, so many good people.' And it's vice versa, and it helps stop problems of misunderstanding and stereotypes from happening.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

  

  Dodie Smith
  • Family
  • Octopus
  • Tentacles

• wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Week

• I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.

  

  Asa Gray
  • Wish

• Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.

  

  Norman Tebbit
  • Attention
  • Sleep
  • Personality

• More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.

  

  William Lashner
  • World
  • Different
  • Care

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