Wish Quotes
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I was always nervous, always scared. That's stayed with me my whole life. I think it's all our genes. We're all stuck with ourselves. I wish I were calm. Never get scared, always calm, but that's not me. I panic easily.
Edward Sorel
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I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
Norman Douglas
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I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.
William Shakespeare
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My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time.
CeeLo Green
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Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
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Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.
Muhammad Ali
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I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism. But I've always been that way.
Derek Jeter
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I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.
Seth MacFarlane
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People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.
Mother Teresa
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Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.
William Nelson
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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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If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
William James
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...now...that I am a wise person. As for me, I wish there were some more of us in the world, for I find it lonesome.
Mark Twain
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I wish you guys would just say, 'Michael Sam, how's the football going? How's training going?' But it is what it is. And I just wish you guys would see me as Michael Sam the football player instead of Michael Sam the gay football player.
Michael Sam
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Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.
Meir Soloveichik
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If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.
Benjamin Carson
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At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.
William Shakespeare
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I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.
William Goldman
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My first wish is to be free, my second, to be reconciled to Great Britain.
William Hooper
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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.
Virginia Woolf
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No measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance, or to the general sentiment and wish of the Nation than to establish a systematic and effectual arrangement for the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt.
George Washington
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I wish you could go through life without ever caring about anything, without ever getting attached to people and dreams and inaccessible places. It just makes you sad when you can never go back.
Elizabeth Wein
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I don't wish to not be a woman, but I'd certainly like to be a woman whose sense of purpose comes from within.
Chiyo Uno
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I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.
Rita Mae Brown