Wish Quotes
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I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.
Franz Grillparzer
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If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.
William J. H. Boetcker
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To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.
Pico Iyer
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If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I cannot imagine why they want to be here at all. Perhaps they should just push off back to their own countries.
Norman Tebbit
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It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.
Carlos Tevez
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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
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Sometimes I wish I was crazy, it would make everything easier.
Charlie Jane Anders
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I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.
Joanna Coles
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I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.
John Ruskin
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Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.
William Shakespeare
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Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.
Sarah Dessen
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There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.
Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
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I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism.
William E. Gladstone
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You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.
Daniel Kahneman
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But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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Be sensitive to subtle differences between 'intuition' and 'into wishing'.
Ed Seykota
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I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.
Mario Andretti
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
Seneca the Younger
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Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come; and may no foul creature come anigh you! And if the Lady could hear me and give me one wish, I would wish to come back and find you again. Good bye!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me
Nipsey Hussle
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Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!
W. H. Auden
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I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger
Rod Stewart
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?
Emily Bronte