Wish Quotes · Page 201

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred…

— Paul Volcker

I have a lot of traits that aren't typically Australian, they're Scottish. I'm very determined. I only wish I had the cool…

— Megan Anderson

A goal without a plan is a wish. What's your plan? It's on you, because you have to do all the work.

— Herman Edwards

I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting.

— Michelle Rodriguez

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all…

— Zadie Smith

Often, just as when they were children, it was four against one when some argument came up. At least they no longer…

— Kristen Britain

“You can be all that you wish and desire to be. Take the challenge and pursue your most cherished dreams.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

My Greatest Wish is that my kids always know how much I love them, and that they walk through the rest of…

— Anonymous

I wish it had been something as sexy as the old Joey Tribbiani, falling-down-an-elevator shaft. But no. It just faded out. I…

— Teddy Sears

The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Even as Ramadan holds profound meaning for the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, it is also a reminder to people of all faiths…

— Barack Obama

I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often…

— Louise Glück

The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin,…

— Eric Hoffer

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human…

— Carl Sagan

I love music. I love every kind of extreme sort of music, and many different genres, and if I were to have…

— Phil Anselmo

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he…

— Charles Dickens

It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)

— Lauren Oliver

Music has a lot in common with mathematics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to…

— Jascha Heifetz

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it.…

— Linda Lael Miller

I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and under-linings they are irreplaceable, but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish.

— Claire Messud

Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

— Hafez

Wishing that person would talk to you is like wishing for a magical unicorn.. isn't going to come true.

— Wendy Graham

Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

— Thomas Hood

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really…

— Alanis Morissette

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if…

— Alison Bechdel

I have my most brilliant and creative ideas when I'm counting sheep. I wish I could nod off but instead my mind…

— Angela Scanlon

Drying up in conversation You will be the one who cannot talk All your insides fall to pieces You just sit there…

— Thom Yorke

I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely…

— Libba Bray

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

— Ai Weiwei

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it,…

— Richard Bach

My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.

— Madeline Miller

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

— Lewis Carroll

I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that…

— Richelle Mead

What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

— Miguel de Unamuno

I had liver disease. I'm completely cured now, but I thought about if I died from liver cancer, what my life would…

— Min Jin Lee

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will…

— John Fowles

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found…

— Samuel Johnson

Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all…

— Frances Hardinge