Wish Quotes
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Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we knew it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we did not know.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I used to watch, on television on Sunday nights, they had the Disney hour then and the castle coming up and 'When you wish upon a star... ' That was my very first Disney memory.
Phyllis Smith
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Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
David Seabury
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A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.
Jason Biggs
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Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.
Napoleon Hill
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On this special Fathers Day, we'd like to wish all of you a very Happy Birthday.
Ralph Kiner
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We ourselves hold the instrument that makes us fat. I just shake my head when I see someone eating cake and saying, 'Oh, I wish I wasn't heavy.' But they keep eating the cake!
Jean Nidetch
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I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded.
John Mellencamp
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In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there is a difference.
Udny Yule
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I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am.
Lauren Oliver
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Oh I wish that I could paint again. Paint is an instrument without which I cannot survive for any length of time. Whenever I even think of gray, green and white, I am overcome with quivers of lust. Then I wish that this war would end and that I might paint again.
Max Beckmann
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What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.
Leila Josefowicz
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A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.
Brian Tracy
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
Demosthenes
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I feel that one of the fields that I need to learn a lot is screenwriting. I used to write my own screenplays, but it's just that I remember that at that time, I was saying to myself, 'I wish one day I will meet a screenwriter that will help me because I feel that I need to learn.'
Denis Villeneuve
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You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day.
Seneca the Younger
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I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.
Ellie Goulding
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Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. We ain't pretty, but we're on the road. Many of us wish we were rock stars anyway. For my part, I live in my iPod. The musicians there are my constant companions on the road.
Luis Alberto Urrea
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The only relationships I wish to honour and keep are with my family and my dear loved ones.
Adnan Sami
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt