Wish Quotes · Page 110

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

— Stevie Wonder

My fantasy is to break up the big banks. I wish we would end 'too big to fail' in our banking system.

— Kenneth C. Griffin

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

— Swami Brahmananda

If I could wish for immortality on earth, it would only be for the power of relieving the distressed.

— Maria Theresa

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

— Jean Kerr

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.

— Samuel Johnson

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we…

— Gene Luen Yang

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a…

— Brandon Sanderson

If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to…

— Anonymous

It's basketball. This is great. How do you get scars from something you love? You can get some regrets, 'I wish I…

— Mike D'Antoni

No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone.…

— Carrie Brownstein

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily…

— Artemas Ward

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could,…

— Michael Hutchence

Life is to be experienced, not fought against, run from, or engaged halfheartedly. Though we may wish to make changes in the…

— Shefali Tsabary

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it…

— Samuel Johnson

And I wish that I was made of stone So that I would not have to see A beauty impossible to define…

— Nick Cave

My own personal view is that people ought to have the right to enter into any kind of relationship they want to…

— Dick Cheney

After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then…

— Angelina Jolie

Reductionist ideology not only hinders biologists from thinking adequately about the phenomena we wish to understand: it has two important social consequences:…

— Steven Rose

I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you…

— Ella Fitzgerald

My brother and I had unresolved things. I just wish I could have had one final conversation with him.

— Travis Knight

I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.

— Amber Valletta

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

— Martial

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

— Henry C. Link

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to…

— Socrates

I wish the company and its associates all the best as Sears Holdings continues on its transformation.

— Steve Mnuchin

Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.

— Steffi Graf

I hate flossing, I wish I just had one long curvy tooth. They didn't have to make separations for me.

— Mitch Hedberg

I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so…

— Roy Jenkins

If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.

— Gelett Burgess

You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.

— Andrea Gibson

If you don't give people what you have, certainly you wouldn't give them the things you wish you had.

— Vikrant Parsai

I wish I could pass my life at the foot of the holy tabernacles in which our adorable Saviour dwells.

— Eugene de Mazenod

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what…

— Ryan Giggs

I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.

— Julie Harris