Wish Quotes · Page 114

I have a habit of needing cake or chocolate when I get an energy dip around 4 P.M. I wish I could…

— Toyah Willcox

Some people think I enjoy debate. I don't. I wish everyone agreed with me; it would save a lot of time.

— Bill Maher

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

— Rosie O'Donnell

“Magnus held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.”

— Cassandra Clare

You & I are here but the wind is everywhere. Cast no words upon it you don’t wish followed back to you.

— Karen Marie Moning

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

— James Howe

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see…

— Bob Dylan

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

— Robert M. Gates

By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to…

— George Orwell

At some point, when I was in Chicago for maybe eight years, I never thought I would leave Chicago. I wish it…

— Luol Deng

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unions are something wrestlers have been talking about for many years. We would probably wish there was a union, but you have…

— Booker T

The fundamental challenge of achieving anything you wish is first to convince yourself to do it. Once you are totally convinced of…

— Ralph Marston

I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

I've talked to a lot of directors who direct solo like most directors. And they're always like, 'Oh, man I wish I…

— Anna Boden

Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient…

— Cleanthes

No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a…

— Vivian Gornick

Death is but a word to us. One's own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. The sight…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you've got to face that - everyone goes through it... Either…

— Audrey Hepburn

And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of…

— J. G. Holland

Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Sacred scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expressed…

— Pope John Paul II

Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our…

— Fred Rogers

Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.

— Tara Brown

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

— Anonymous

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

— Thom Yorke

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

— Dick Van Dyke

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

— Abraham Cowley

I don't wish stardom on anyone. When I hear people say, 'this guy's a star,' I always say, 'good luck.'

— B. J. Armstrong

“I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not…

— Emily Dickinson

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

— Joseph Joubert

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

— Keke Palmer

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of…

— Anonymous

I wish I could be the guy who did the right thing at every time but unfortunately, that's not the case.

— George Stults

My mother, my father, I love 'em, I hate 'em, wish god I didnt have 'em, but thank god that he made…

— DMX

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be…

— Anonymous