Wish Quotes
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The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.
David M. Brown
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I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.
Dion Boucicault
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Through this entire process we always wanted what was best for Patrick, and in working with him we feel this is where he wants to be. We wish him the best with the Jets.
Joe Gibbs
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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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If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming
Ahad Ha'am
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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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When I think back to the early years of my career, I wish I would have been less tolerant of the norms of that time. Compared to today's generation, my generation didn't call attention to unfair practices like equal pay and promotion tracks as often.
Belinda Johnson
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In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle's TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that focuses on attracting animals instead of scaring them away.
Edith Widder
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We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?
David Foster Wallace
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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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We all wish we could stay with one franchise and it work out the way it work out but it doesn't necessarily work that way, but you've got to keep balling.
Justin Scott
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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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If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.
Xunzi
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Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?
Oliver Goldsmith
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There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.
Chester Bennington Stone Temple Pilots
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It is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
Katharine Whitehorn
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I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.
Charles Perrault
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It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
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There are plenty of things I wish I'd known when I decided to quit my position at IBM and work on the idea that later became TaskRabbit. Maybe that's why one of the things I cherish most about being a founder and CEO is the opportunity to offer advice to new entrepreneurs.
Leah Busque
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Do you think I wish to hang Taher? Well, I don’t. But the Law of the Land should carry its Course. And he (Colonel Abu Taher) did not send any Mercy Petition and so what is there for me to do?
Ziaur Rahman
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A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Jeff Rich The Climax Blues Band
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'I wish...' she said, and stopped. There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it. A final deep shaky breath, and she was ready to go on.
Philip Pullman
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How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money.
Irving Fisher