Wish Quotes
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If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming
Ahad Ha'am
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The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely accord with our true policy and interest. If they do not, to observe a proper line of conduct for promoting the one, and avoiding offence to the other, will be a work of great difficulty.
George Washington
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If they do not wish to confer the honour, I am the last person who would wish to receive it.
Margaret Thatcher
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When you wish upon a star, you just might become one.
Paula Abdul
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I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you've got to respect that it's not like baseball.
Bryce Harper
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Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.
Charles Fourier
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That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
Lydia M. Child
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If I don't manage to negotiate with the European Union, something I wish, then I will ask the French to leave the European Union. And then you'll be able to call me Madame Frexit.
Marine Le Pen
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You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.'
Louis Susman
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.
Joanne Rowling
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'Granted' is about a lively young woman who does a fairy godmother a good turn and is given a wish as her reward.
Jody Lynn Nye
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I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.
Colin Hay
Men at Work
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Sometimes when you get older — and I’m not talking about you, I’m talking generally, because everyone ages differently — things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they’re part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they’re not true — why, then you get offended because you can’t remember the first part. All you know is that you’ve been called a liar.
Sara Gruen
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I have had to really grapple with the fact that, while I wish things could be different at times, I ultimately needed to experience the transformation that comes with pain and loss and sorrow.
Karyn Kusama
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If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
Will Durant
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I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.
Brendan Coyle