Wish Quotes · Page 198

In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy…

— Alain de Botton

If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.

— Matt Mullenweg

Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

— Steve Zahn

I would like to spend more time with my parents. I wish they could shift to Mumbai or I could go and…

— Shaheer Sheikh

I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.

— Suzanne Collins

Only an ideologue deals with the world as he would wish it to be, as opposed to the world as it is.

— Kenneth Clarke

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

— Cesare Pavese

'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of…

— Walter Scott

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear…

— Carl Jung

It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in…

— Martin Rees

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when…

— Charlotte Rae

His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain, Unless He does in our affections reign. How fond it were to wish…

— Edmund Waller

I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me.…

— Story Musgrave

My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate…

— Sugata Mitra

India was secular even when Muslims hadn't come here and Christians hadn't set foot on this soil. It is not as if…

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being…

— Queen Victoria

It is my greatest wish that the Children’s Fund should continue to be a beacon of hope and light.

— Nelson Mandela

Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.

— John of Damascus

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

— Jim Rohn

I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those…

— Jack Handey

The majority of our electorate that did not vote for BJP is actually Hindus. They wish for peace and brotherhood.

— M. K. Stalin

Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years…

— Jonathan Edwards

I'm really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl - wish I could relive it all over again.

— Lady Gaga

[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot…

— Nat Hentoff

“a child might possibly change his country; a man can only wish that he might change it.”

— Michael Oakeshott

I wish that I did the things that I really believe in, because when I do, my life goes much smoother.

— Cher

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.

— Norman Vincent Peale

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later…

— Donald Rumsfeld

We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close…

— Eli Attie

The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense…

— Garance Dore

I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am…

— Valentina Tereshkova

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

— George Bernard Shaw

The Make-A-Wish Foundation started with one wish out of Phoenix, Arizona, and the organization has grown so grand ever since.

— Ainsley Earhardt

What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish…

— Jonathan Swift

“Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.”

— Sophocles

I think every actor would wish there is some challenge that is left. I would consider to be creatively dead if I…

— Amitabh Bachchan

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the…

— Karl Rove

I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops…

— Pope Francis

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I almost wish I hadn't been painted in such a light that I was just hardcore and that I couldn't deliver a…

— Daffney