Wish Quotes

• I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.

  

  Aleksandar Hemon
  • People
  • Deep
  • River

• In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

  

  Walter Alexander Raleigh
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Examination

• I wish I had a funny story.

  

  Leslie Easterbrook
  • Funny
  • Wish

• All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Information
  • Determine
  • Computation

• As an industry, the film industry is better than most. It's not perfect - I wish every company would carbon-offset their productions - but it's better than one would expect.

  

  Jeffrey Skoll
  • Perfect
  • Wish

• Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. And when Americans are sent to Vietnam or West Berlin, we do not ask for whites only. It ought to be possible, therefore, for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Up
  • American
  • Today

• All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Political
  • Criticism

• Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Desire

• I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.

  

  Nell Carter
  • People
  • Wish

• Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. The pain of words against the pain of kicks and punches and the instruments of death.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Death
  • Pain
  • Write

• If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

  

  Lewis Tappan
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

  

  Alexander Siddig
  • Life
  • Wish

• I think of the spam folder not as Pandora's box but as a costume shop in which you can play and play at being whoever and whatever you wish. If only for a time.

  

  James Veitch
  • Time
  • Wish

• The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12.

  

  Lionel Sosa
  • Age
  • Party
  • Mom

• For the most part, I meet people who are like 'I really like your work. I'm watching your career. I want to see you do well. Keep doing what you do.' I get that so much, and it's so reassuring. I often wish that so many people, who just work normal jobs, could get a pat on the back as much as I do, because it's very complimentary.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Jobs
  • Careers
  • Normal

• I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and—appraised it—and taxed it—and licensed it—and staled it!

  

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
  • Emotion
  • Solitary
  • Taxed

• Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

  

  Paul Ricoeur
  • Wish
  • Criticism
  • Called

• I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

  

  Markus Zusak
  • Wish

• It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I've had in having a giving and loving family.

  

  James MacArthur
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Nature
  • Energy
  • Wish

• We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

  

  Laurent Fabius
  • Wish
  • Model

• One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • American
  • Attention
  • Desire

• I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Easy

• Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terrific heave of these pleasures, of these habits of this entirely senseless life.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Habits
  • Restless

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