Wish Quotes · Page 111

People determine the laws. But I do wish they would pass laws that enhance health, not jeopardize it.

— Drew Pinsky

I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.'

— Tarana Burke

Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.

— Steven Furtick

When I travel, it makes me wish I looked completely polished all the time. I don't. I live in sweats.

— Anna Faris

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

— Anonymous

What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.

— Oprah Winfrey

“He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars

— Meyer Lansky

Some things aren't to my taste and I wish they wouldn't have happened but they have been some of the best experiences…

— John Assaraf

Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs…

— Daniel Pipes

Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish…

— Billie Burke

“Being interested in doing undone things means you have the wish to have them done. But being powerful and filled with passion…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I wake up naturally and begrudgingly around 6:10 A.M. That's wired in so deeply that I wake up at that time no…

— Samin Nosrat

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be…

— Gloria Steinem

No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care…

— Michael Servetus

I don't run outside, honestly. Sometimes I go out around my house, but mainly it's the stupid treadmill. I wish I had…

— Drew Carey

The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at…

— Betty Friedan

Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,…

— Guy de Maupassant

We assert that integrity (the condition of being whole and complete) is a necessary condition for workability, and that the resultant level…

— Werner Erhard

I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His ears have tripled in size. Everyone's…

— Sonya Sones

There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.…

— John Welwood

THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to…

— Jed Rubenfeld

I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually…

— William Styron

"I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you," said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting…

— Charles Dickens

Always be true to you. But learn how to adapt, too. That's something I wish I did when I was younger.

— Denzel Curry

I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

— J. B. Smoove

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

— Dianne Wiest

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

— Robert Quillen

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

— Henry Vaughan

I wish- I wish I could dry these tears, I wish I could make this better for you. But I don't know…

— Juliet Marillier

Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

— Susanna Kearsley

I would wish eventually to be able to make television that informs and educates as well as entertains.

— Drummond Money-Coutts

I have always believed that I have chutzpah that a lot of girls wish they had, and I am proud of that.

— Shweta Menon

When I see Wales qualifying for the Euros and Leicester top of the league, I wish I was still playing.

— Robbie Savage

You have to dream big, wish hard and chase after your goals, because no one is going to do it for you.

— Cee Lo Green

There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.

— Grimes

Sometimes you fall out of love with what you do. Some days, you wake up and wish you worked on a farm.

— Jonathan Anderson

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

— Margaret Millar

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'

— Edsger Dijkstra