Wish Quotes

• Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Character
  • Stories
  • Circumstances

• I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten, Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land! * * * * * Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.

  

  Dan Emmett
  • Forgotten
  • Patriotism
  • Cotton

• 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
  • Past
  • Literature
  • Ugly

• 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
  • Believe
  • Realizing
  • Racism

• 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
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Facts

• 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
  • Enough
  • Virtue
  • Fancy

• In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Wish
  • Audience
  • Markets

• "I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Wish
  • Everyone
  • Chances

• 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
  • Film
  • Feels
  • Audience

• I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Father
  • Wish

• People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • People
  • Government
  • Given

• I wish I knew what I know now before.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Wish
  • Knows

• The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Force
  • Conservative
  • Reform

• If it’s freedom you seek, then wish nothing and shun nothing that depends on others, or you will always be a helpless slave.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Freedom
  • Wish
  • Slave

• 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
  • Wish
  • Vanity
  • Sensation

• 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
  • Giving
  • Sacrifice
  • Birth

• 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
  • Moments
  • Feelings
  • Memories

• Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.

  

  Miranda Cosgrove
  • Want
  • Wish
  • Actors

• The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Brain

• I kind of wish they’d shut up,” Jack said. “Dude, true dat,” Lend answered. Jack nodded solemnly. “For serious.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Wish
  • Kind
  • Serious

• I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Wish
  • Care
  • Accepted

• A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.

  

  Edwin W. Rice
  • Believe
  • Wish
  • Weight

• 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
  • Past
  • Conditions
  • Essentials

• 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
  • Friend
  • Cat
  • Servant

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