Wish Quotes
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.
Ernest Renan
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
Thomas Sowell
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I don't wanna believe that racism exists, but the more I wish it away, the more I realize it's in our system.
will.i.am
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Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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If you wish to write, write.
Epictetus
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You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.
Stanley Kubrick
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For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.
Helen Keller
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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'
Rudyard Kipling
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I wish I knew what I know now before.
Rod Stewart
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So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.
Stevie Smith
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I don't think any actor can be happy with their performance. There's always something you wish you would have done or said differently.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
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He just hit one of those shots. You wish when you hit a shot like that you win a game rather than lose a game.
Bob Thomason
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I wish that every Latter-day Saint could say and mean it with all his heart: 'I'll go where you want me to go. I'll say what you want me to say. I'll be what you want me to be'. If we could do that, we would be assured of the maximum happiness here and exaltation in the celestial kingdom of God hereafter.
Ezra Taft Benson
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I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.
Cesar Millan
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"I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine
Cynthia Lord
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Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to get without giving, to take without risking, to profit without sacrifice, to be exalted without humbling themselves to understand others and meet their needs.
George Gilder
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A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.
Edwin W. Rice
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Of all the things I wish for in this world, I want you to find happiness. I suspect you never will have that with me, and I've resigned myself to the matter.”
Courtney Milan
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There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.
Nicholas Sparks
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's a terrible place to live.
Carrie Brownstein
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I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.
Murray Walker