Wish Quotes · Page 420

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

— Edward Burtynsky

By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again.

— Jack Bauer

I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.

— Julie Delpy

I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering…

— Jonathan Hull

I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.

— Layne Staley

I'm not a cool girl. I wish I was.

— Diana Silvers

We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore…

— Sharon Olds

I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my…

— Mary Engelbreit

That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into…

— Frederick William Robertson

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though…

— Anonymous

If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

— Horace Mann

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed…

— Dean Koontz

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a…

— Anonymous

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

— Julius Caesar

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

— Samuel Richardson

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be…

— Lily Allen

Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week…

— Cheri Huber

I've a very sweet tooth. Wish I didn't.

— Anne Reid

I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint;…

— Frida Kahlo

Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing,…

— Henry Van Dyke

[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him.

— Iris Origo

All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry…

— Glenn Greenwald

So many visitors came to rub and kiss different parts of him for the fulfillment of their various wishes that his entire…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Much as we might wish it, looks don't always last forever. That's why, if you're looking for a long-term relationship, it's extremely…

— Jeanne Phillips