Wish Quotes · Page 64

If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother.

— Maximilian Kolbe

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

— Nastassja Kinski

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I wish my name was Tom Kite.

— Ian Baker-Finch

I will not be standing for office. I'm nearing 70; there are younger people within our movement. I just wish to contribute…

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

Those who like tranquility and dislike clamor tend to avoid people to seek quietude. They do not know that when one wishes…

— Zicheng Hong

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

— Neal Shusterman

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

— Seneca the Younger

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of…

— Thomas Moore

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your…

— Bob Dole

I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.

— E. J. Dionne

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want…

— Stockwell Day

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

— Alexandre Dumas

It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but…

— Alfred Nobel

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

— Rodger Kamenetz

I wish Wales was more represented on the British stage, and I have missed that being in London.

— Morfydd Clark

Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and…

— George Eliot

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I wish I could see outta two eyes.

— Slick Rick

As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I…

— Dichen Lachman

If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come…

— Stephen Russell

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now,…

— Rod Stewart

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And…

— John Steinbeck

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one…

— Dale Carnegie

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

— Jim Harrison

An efficient bartenders first aim should be to please his customers, paying particular attention to meet the individual wishes of those whose…

— Jerry Thomas

I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had -…

— Nikki Giovanni

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

— Geena Davis

I was not the poster boy for anything at all. Like we all have made mistakes and we all have taken paths…

— Billy Gunn

I wish I had more of a game plan of how I'm going to, like, take down toxic masculinity. But I think…

— Jonathan Van Ness

Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they're really after is to be carefree. Power when what they…

— Jackson Pearce

Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural…

— Andy Murray

I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself... but I'm entirely content.…

— Katharine Hepburn

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on…

— Maude Royden

You'd go in the magic shop [as an 8-year-old ], and you'd walk up to the magicians doing stuff, and they'd turn…

— David Copperfield

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the…

— Albert Einstein

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's.…

— Penelope Spheeris

We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. D.N.A. This structure has novel features which are of…

— Rosalind Franklin