Wish Quotes
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What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.
Jonathan Swift
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We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.
Joichi Ito
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The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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That which you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others.
Umar
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In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the altar! I shall not resist. He allows humans to keep him wherever they wish-in monstrance or tabernacle; to carry him in procession; to bring him into the homes of the sick and dying; to dispense him to all, whether saint or sinner. The gospel tells how marvelously he obeyed Mary and Joseph. Today he obeys every priest in the world.
Alphonsus Liguori
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I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.'
Christian Louboutin
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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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A banker need not be popular; indeed a good banker in a healthy capitalist society should probably be much disliked. People do not wish to trust their money to a hail-fellow-well-met but to a misanthrope who can say no.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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All film, at the end of the day, has wish-fulfillment.
David Leitch
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It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.
Pico Iyer
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What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.
Jonathan Swift
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Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.
Cyrus Augustus Bartol
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My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.
Dwight Yoakam
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I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.
Agnes Varda
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock
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NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.
Burt Rutan
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Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer.
John Hall
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I wish I had spent more time at the office.
Paul Tsongas
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I wouldn't wish my consort to suffer ennui.
Nalini Singh
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
Alexandre Dumas
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The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.
Aimee Carter
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The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.
Aimee Carter
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There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
Mary of Teck
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No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
Walt Disney