Wish Quotes · Page 83

I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.

— Augustus

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

— Bette Davis

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

— Plautus

The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.

— Christopher Moore

“If we wish for peace, we must pray for one another.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes I wish I was a bird so I could fly over certain people and shit on their head

— Crystal

It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

— Alice Dunbar Nelson

“He has had his wish. He will not bow his head.”

— Robin Hobb

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look…

— Angela Ahrendts

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of…

— Leo Tolstoy

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

— Neal Stephenson

Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every…

— Jane Pierce

My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my…

— Jon Anderson

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I…

— Edward Hirsch

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost…

— Marcus Aurelius

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of…

— Florence Nightingale

I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and…

— Shirley Jackson

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children…

— J. C. Ryle

As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine…

— Helen Caldicott

Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're…

— Louis C. K

I know you're in a better place. Even though I can't see your face. I know you're smiling down on me. Saying…

— R Kelly

You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it come true.

— Anonymous

I wish we could just stay on the bandstand, it's so peaceful up here.

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

I wish u the best, cuz ur like all the rest.

— Playaaa

I wish to confess my sins and I wish Christ to come into my life.

— Russell Johnson

If you would wish the dog to follow you, feed him

— Henry George Bohn

You can show your love to others by not wishing that they should be better Christians.

— Francis of Assisi

I wish I had a boyfriend that cared this much for me :'(

— Tumblr

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

— Anonymous

Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change.

— Jim Rohn

Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

— Edward Abbey

“Perhaps a wish was just a hope with better aim.”

— Matt Haig

I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought hats.

— Richelle Mead

“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness.”

— Frédéric Chopin

I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.

— Marilyn Frye

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

— Epictetus

“Be the competition you wish to see in the world.”

— Michael P. Naughton