Wish Quotes
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Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it
William Hazlitt
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I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.
Joanna Coles
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The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.
Courtney Love
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Hopefully, it's nothing and he'll be ready for the season. I wish him luck and hope he gets healthy.
Carlos Zambrano
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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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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.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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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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 am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Be stubborn if you wish to, if you need to, but we know how this will end.
Chloe Neill
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Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.
William Nelson
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I wish I knew how to sleep late! I generally wake horribly early, often with a head full of thoughts and deadlines that propel me to my computer.
Catherine Mayer
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At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of age and the increasing love of retirement, daily confirm my decided predilection for domestic life: and the great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.
George Washington
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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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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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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.
Virginia Woolf
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First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.
Judy Blume
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Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we'd be here every freakin' day.
Ed Bernard
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You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
Publilius Syrus
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Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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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I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so fun to say. He has such great alliteration and paints the most vivid images with his lyrics
Tituss Burgess
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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 I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.
Dolores Huerta