Wish Quotes · Page 229

In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

— David Livingstone

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mom's always saying really smart things... like, you probably heard this one, 'Why buy the cow when the milk has HPV?'…

— Amy Schumer

Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little…

— Lorrie Moore

If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.

— Thomas a Kempis

I love to travel but hate traffic and planes. I wish I could just beam myself anywhere instantly.

— Jordan Ladd

I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end…

— Anonymous

I only wish I knew that you'd actually want to be with me when that time is over.

— Kiera Cass

Top of my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.

— Joe Hart

Their women are of surpassing beauty, and are shown more respect than the men. These people are Muslims, punctilious in observing the…

— Ibn Battuta

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing…

— Socrates

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible…

— Joseph Gatt

I don't wanna believe that racism exists, but the more I wish it away, the more I realize it's in our system.

— will.i.am

My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

— Eva Gabor

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

— Charles Bukowski

I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my…

— Cindy Margolis

I certainly miss playing piano, and I really wish I did it more - it's really a very therapeutic thing to do…

— Audra McDonald

Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that…

— Barack Obama

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

— Frans de Waal

In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where…

— Saint Augustine

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.

— Andrew Saul

I only wish the sport of shooting was more reachable and there were training centers all over the country where youngsters could…

— Abhinav Bindra

When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real…

— Norman Finkelstein

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those…

— Bobby Jindal

As Jack began to climb the stairs, Fiona looked up at her new home. Five stories of stately mansion rose above her…

— Karen Hawkins

It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon…

— Maxwell Maltz

It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is…

— Petrarch

Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.

— Aaron McGruder

In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to…

— Charles Lyell

I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.

— Arundhati Roy

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

I wish I had met [Francesca] Woodman forty years ago. It would have been great to live with her for a year.…

— Richard Prince

I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears…

— Britney Spears

I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation,…

— Arthur Ashe

This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them…

— Lord Chesterfield

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But…

— Khaled Hosseini

I want to wish you all luck with every bit of life you have ahead of you! Be strong. Be fearless. Be…

— Dylan O'Brien