Wish Quotes · Page 299

Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a…

— Leo Tolstoy

"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day," which I actually recorded on "Quality Street" because I don't think anyone has ever…

— Nick Lowe

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I deal with stress in two ways because there are two kinds of stress. There's stress that you can take care of…

— Hank Green

Most people have friends, but no money. I have the opposite. I don't have a chance to talk to my real friends,…

— Jaromir Jagr

Change does not fail to occur because of insincerity. The heart patient is not insincere about his wish to keep living, even…

— Robert Kegan

“I wish I could tell you it doesn't matter. I wish I could hold you close and tell that you will be…

— Matthew Laurence

I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to…

— Harlan Coben

I started off just trying to make a wish list for myself. I wanted to work with people I really admire myself.…

— Tiesto

I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are…

— Naomi Alderman

My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. 'Don't you ever wish you could make that bit go away?"…

— Alexandra Potter

I have a wish list for 'Awwal.' I want to work with Ajay Devgn. I need an entertainer, a big star as…

— Vivek Agnihotri

I wish... I wish I was your favorite girl. I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world.…

— Anonymous

I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments,…

— Judith Butler

Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a…

— Pope Francis

Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work,…

— Camille Pissarro

Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s…

— Terry Pratchett

Sometimes I wish I could just go back to Florida and, like, date my home-town boyfriend. It's really frustrating whenever I can't…

— Ashley Greene

I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She…

— Nat Hentoff

It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in…

— Mary Parker Follett

It's really sweet when people tweet at me and say I'm their spirit animal or 'I wish she was my best friend,'…

— Mindy Kaling

I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from…

— Rumi

If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all…

— Charles Webster Leadbeater

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.…

— Jewel

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just…

— Jack Kerouac

It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish.…

— David M. Kreps

I’ll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed…

— Charles Montgomery

I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go…

— Jessica Pare

He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay…

— Hermann Hesse

I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was…

— Samuel Morse

No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we…

— Marianne Williamson

I wish to clarify that I have absolutely not made a decision regarding my participation in the next Olympics. On a personal…

— Rory McIlroy

I'm definitely a frustrated musician, though it's more in terms of wishing I was a better guitar player and songwriter. But I've…

— Cillian Murphy

After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is…

— Annie Oakley

I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased…

— Paul Newman

I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I've got no sympathy for him whatsoever. I just wish we had got 10 past him. At the end of the day…

— Gary Neville

Learn to become still. And to take your attention away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,…

— Michael Beckwith

Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy…

— William Hazlitt

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged.…

— Jon Meacham