Wish Quotes · Page 103

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I never dreamed of being a flagbearer. Every athlete has a wish to get to the Olympic Games. I had that wish,…

— Shani Davis

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and…

— Yves Saint Laurent

I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the…

— Ellen Page

I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be.

— Rachel Dolezal

I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone…

— Jorja Fox

(2/2)Parents,Grandparents, aunts, uncles etc.Would be so much happier and can watch there friends and family grow up. If I had to sacrifice…

— Jasmine

Those dreams I have at night are going to drive me crazy. Last night I dreamed that little red-haired girl and I…

— Charles M. Schulz

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea…

— Jennifer Saunders

[Søren ] Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, `You can't really think yourself into a faith, into…

— Nat Hentoff

I have my most brilliant and creative ideas when I'm counting sheep. I wish I could nod off but instead my mind…

— Angela Scanlon

At the core of every person or belief, there's a pain and a thorn. There's always something, whether it's a physical thing,…

— Michael K. Williams

As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but…

— Benjamin Franklin

One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance…

— Kylie Minogue

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

— Christopher Marlowe

“Sometimes," says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's…

— Sally Brampton

A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.

— R. K. Milholland

On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present…

— Mike Myers

I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the…

— Isaiah Berlin

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to…

— Isaiah Berlin

I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when…

— Libba Bray

I wish they'd build a ski jump at the Grand Canyon; it'd be fantastic.

— Eddie the Eagle

We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

— Anonymous

We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them…

— Sebastian Thrun

I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.

— Ratan Tata

But then, his revenge had been more direct. He’d hunted down the ones who’d killed his sister and nephew – those who’d…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains.

— Swami Brahmananda

Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It…

— Keshub Chandra Sen

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

— Jackie Chan

The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the…

— Jose Saramago

NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór,…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

— Hillary Clinton

My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

— Les Dawson

I know that I'm carrying a bit of a weight on my shoulders of what I do represents more than just myself…

— Patty Jenkins

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,…

— James Hansen

I wish I knew myself, when I was playing, with the insight I gained once I found peace and distance from cricket,…

— Michael Clarke