Wish Quotes · Page 280

You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.

— Andrea Gibson

She knows how to hang on to my money. I wish her mom were the same way.

— Orville Moody

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

— Garry Kasparov

It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should…

— Zadie Smith

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

— Edward Young

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap…

— Lu Yen-hsun

This one's for you, and I truly hope you hear me, Through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey.

— Heavy D

I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.

— Chester Bennington

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should…

— Emily Giffin

Although I'm aware of how under-represented we are, I sometimes forget how desperately Arabs who aren't in the film business wish for…

— Lexi Alexander

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise…

— Mark Twain

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in…

— Anonymous

There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea;…

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us…

— Catherine McAuley

I wish I weren’t reeling at all.

— Frank O'Hara

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

— Eric Clapton

I wish I had a million in the bank. I like round figures. I am a round figure.

— Miriam Margolyes

Dreams are nothing more than wishes and a wish is just a dream you wish to come true,

— Harry Nilsson

I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I…

— Leonard Cohen

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to…

— Laurence Sterne

The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.

— Asger Jorn

[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most…

— Richard M. Weaver

Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is... simply…

— Sam Altman

I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I…

— Zora Neale Hurston

I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

— Peter Fonda

“Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication they have yet to experience?…

— Kamand Kojouri

In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as…

— William Herschel

I do wish my breasts were bigger. Not big... but less small.

— Calista Flockhart

I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do…

— Galileo Galilei

I think my work is optimistic - as much as it is pathetic and funny and sad and ridiculous, at the end…

— Laurel Nakadate

Everyone who tortured me and kidnapped me, who imprisoned me, I have forgiven everyone. And I wish them, from the bottom of…

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

I wish I could take away your pain. I wish I could go back to when you were born and take you…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

When I was in the 9th or 10th grade, Cheryl was All-American, and she was getting all the pub. I thought to…

— Reggie Miller

If I ever have a child.. Insh'allah I will... I wish it's a girl. I want a girl child.

— Salman Khan

One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.

— Eugen Kogon

My art teacher had said that if you breathed deeply and imagined something, you could be there. You could see it, feel…

— Ruta Sepetys

I always wish for the audience to feel less lonely when they leave the room. To have the film as a companion,…

— Celine Sciamma

The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I wish all guns had blanks, and that's all we shot out of guns, because then I'd recommend that everyone has as…

— Cameron Britton