Wish Quotes · Page 112

“When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.”

— Lily Tomlin

In my career, I have made the right choices, but somehow, as an actress, I wish I had done more films.

— Deepti Naval

I love video games. I love, love, love them! I also love 'Star Wars.' I wish Jedi was a true religion.

— Kunal Nayyar

“A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.”

— Steve Aylett

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

— Lucan

I wish we could get a national buddy network going. It would be a great thing for the American people.

— Bart Starr

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

— Robert Jackson Bennett

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

— Richard Avedon

You’re free to dream however you wish,” Nollin teased. “But don’t ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic—” “Then don’t…

— Brandon Mull

It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish.…

— Vera Farmiga

We must pray to God everyday to show we don't forget that all gifts come from Him. But if some wishes remain…

— Johanna Spyri

I'm the Chairman Emeritus, and according to my contract I am supposed to devote 10% of my time to working for Marvel...…

— Stan Lee

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support…

— Naguib Mahfouz

I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time…

— Anne Reeve Aldrich

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free…

— Mitch Hedberg

If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance.…

— Jessi Klein

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities,…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything…

— Eugene Ionesco

The Alexander Technique will benefit anyone whether they are an elite athlete or whether they just wish to live life without the…

— Greg Chappell

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and…

— Samuel Johnson

One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently…

— Keith Richards

Lay your wishes aside for a spell, and look deep into what you believe about yourself. Make sure your beliefs about your…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a…

— Dermot Mulroney

Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of…

— Alan Watts

I reckon, if I was a girl, I'd fancy Johnny Depp - he's pretty cool. I wish I looked like Johnny Depp.

— Lee Ryan

Oh no. Oh God. I couldn't possibly be so stupid." "Don't limit yourself. You can be anything you wish.

— Tessa Dare

Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.

— Mason Cooley

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

— Samuel Johnson

I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.

— Bob Costas

I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.

— Ice Cube

When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.

— Eli Wallach

I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.

— Mother Teresa

I wish that every other guy were gay. Think about the leverage that would create in your relationship.

— Dov Davidoff

The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.

— Susanna Rowson

Which hurts the most, saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing and wishing you had?

— Javan

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

— Cassandra Clare

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

— David Berlinski

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

— James Randi

Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.

— Anonymous

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

— W. H. Auden