Wish Quotes
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They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.
Howard K. Smith
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I just wish insignificance had more stature.
Andy Rooney
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What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn’t get so mad at them.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
John Buford
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I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.
George Washington
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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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I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.
Alice Paul
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No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.
Marianne Williamson
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There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.
Jesse James Garrett
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Every disaster made us wish for something bigger, grander, more sweeping.
Don DeLillo
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My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.
Uzo Aduba
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The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.
Betty Rollin