Wish Quotes
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I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.
Virginia Woolf
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Hello everybody! Hey hey hey! Okay! Do you know it's not... it's not very often that we do shows in daylight. And I fucking wish we'd done before, I can see you all now. And there's some beauties here tonight, I can tell you!
Freddie Mercury Queen
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Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Do now what you wish to have done when your moment comes to die.
Angela Merici
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There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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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I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.
Kim Harrison
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I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!
E. M. Forster
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I obey the Commandments, the sensible ones. Where they don’t know what they’re talking about I ignore them. I keep thinking about the story of the two old women in church listening to the priest discoursing on the dynamics of the married state. At the end of the sermon one turns to the other and says, 'I wish I knew as little about it as he does.'
Donald Barthelme
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I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.
Mary-Kate Olsen
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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
David Attenborough
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Kylie looked up towards the sky. "Sometimes I just wish Heaven wasn't so far away.
Christie Craig
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I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.
Patton Oswalt
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I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
William Shakespeare
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Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.
Donnie Yen
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I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
Piers Anthony
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There was a lot of Pac haters, but I definitely love Pac. I wish I got to do a song with him.
Ty Dolla Sign
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When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.
Tablo
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I really wish I could play the piano really well without having to practice.
Christopher Miller
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We do not wish to copy nature. We do not want to reproduce, we want to produce. We want to produce as a plant produces a fruit and does not itself reproduce. We want to produce directly and without meditation. As there is not the least trace of abstraction in this art, we will call it concrete art.
Jean Arp
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Appear as you may wish to be..
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly opinionated, and I'm someone who's so private. I suppose you admire people who have the qualities you wish you had.
Emun Elliott
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I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people's faces, then I think I'll be successful.
Deepika Padukone
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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