Wish Quotes

• Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

  

  David Remnick
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Practice

• Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I'm home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

  

  Jane Badler
  • Work
  • Children
  • Home

• If the question is, 'Do I wish I made thirty million dollars a year,' the answer is, 'You bet.' If the question is, 'Do I wish I could write like Tom Clancy,' the answer must remain, 'No.'

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Wish
  • Question

• Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.

  

  William Cowper
  • Long
  • Home
  • Wander

• I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

  

  Joshua Logan
  • Reality
  • Wish
  • Defeat

• 'You drink only sparingly. Is the beer too thin?''No at all. I merely wish to keep my wits about me. It would not do if both of us became addled, and later woke up in doubt as to who was who.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Up
  • Doubt
  • Beer

• I don't hate anyone. Sometimes I wish I could interact with the community in a more normal way, though.

  

  Christopher Poole
  • Hate
  • Community
  • Wish

• I came out when I was 17 - coming out in middle or high school is one of the most difficult things that anyone could experience. I wouldn't wish it on my enemies.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• I wish I could keep war from all Nations; but that is beyond my power. I can at least make certain that no act of the United States helps to produce or to promote war. I can at least make clear that the conscience of America revolts against war and that any Nation which provokes war forfeits the sympathy of the people of the United States.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • People
  • Power
  • War

• Every day, I wish to make the world more beautiful than I found it.

  

  Jeanne Antoinette Poisson
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Wish

• I wish people would shift that focus on to themselves and their own family and their own friends and just maybe spend a little more time on their home front. And not some distant planet that is me.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami in their lifetimes. I think it is on the same level as seeing the pyramids in Giza for many people. But, Miami is slippery: It is a place that is always that distant orgiastic green light while also being a hot, tropical, and very real place.

  

  Jim Drain
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Wish

• Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Men
  • Wish

• It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

  

  John Boyd Orr
  • Up
  • May
  • War

• I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Wish
  • Grandmother

• So the Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Wish
  • Party

• I wish I had a lot of tattoos.

  

  Kristen Wiig
  • Wish

• I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.

  

  Curt Flood
  • God
  • Black
  • Made

• Dear John, There's so much I want to say to you, but I'm not sure where I should begin. Should I start by telling you that I love you? Or that the days I've spent with you have been the happiest in my life? Or that in the short time I've known you, I've come to believe that we were meant to be together? I could say all those things and all would be true, but as I reread them, all I can think is that I wish I were with you now, holding your hand and watching your elusive smile.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Elusive

• Him that I love, I wish to be Free -  Even from me.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Free
  • Wish

• Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

  

  Cornelius Nepos
  • Life
  • Power
  • Wish

• No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Up
  • Live
  • Heart

• We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Age
  • Value

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