Wish Quotes · Page 134

I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.

— Elizabeth Scott

When I have free time, which I wish I had more of, playing frisbee is a great way to get outdoors and…

— Evan Sharp

To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as…

— Nelson Mandela

On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it…

— Eric Heiden

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

— Plutarch

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

— Kate Mosse

The soul has no other wish than to have an unlimited number of fearless, joyful playmates on the journey home.

— Penney Peirce

I appreciate that I have lots of fans out there, and they want to wish me well, but I don't want that…

— Bob Morley

“What are you doing?” Len asked. “It will sound stupid if I tell you,” Jim said. “No it won’t. Tell me.” “I…

— Ryan Field

I wish you guys would just say, 'Michael Sam, how's the football going? How's training going?' But it is what it is.…

— Michael Sam

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences...I f you wish to see the truth then hold no…

— Sengcan

[R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience…

— Vincent de Paul

The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed.…

— Henry Oldenburg

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because,…

— Abraham Lincoln

[Electronic newspapers will bring] plenty of ulcers for journalists because they'll have new deadlines every 60 seconds. It'll be a race to…

— Russ Wilcox

Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test…

— Ayn Rand

Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able…

— Bear Grylls

I wish the dashboard indicators for lights were standardized throughout the auto industry.

— Robert James Thomson

I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.

— Bob Costas

Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.

— Harry Styles

Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff.

— William Topaz McGonagall

To some people, the feelin is rare. They're at the pad sayin God damn, I wish I was there.

— Lil Rob

“The absence of wish, to analysis yourself, the surrounding world, and what you are doing. Is the logical, and philosophical proof, of…

— VicDo

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.

— Bill Gates

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to…

— Fred Melamed

I'm not into these mollycoddled sorts of things; I like a bit of danger. I haven't got a death wish, but it…

— Guy Martin

If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has…

— Shri Radhe Maa

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

— Annie Leibovitz

I wish I was sort of someone like Woody Allen who can stage everything in one long master shot, no coverage; just,…

— Jay Roach

We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too.

— Edward Young

Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No…

— Ayn Rand

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

— Samuel Johnson

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own…

— Ludwig von Mises

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

— Henning Mankell

I'm really grateful that my baby daddy is incredibly involved. But there's certain things I wish he could just telepathically know.

— Kathryn Hahn

Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and…

— Rudyard Kipling

I wish the 'Dark Phoenix' saga had been done more effectively than it was, but that was out of my hands.

— Chris Claremont

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work…

— Clara Schumann

I wake up naturally and begrudgingly around 6:10 A.M. That's wired in so deeply that I wake up at that time no…

— Samin Nosrat

Instead of putting a quarter under a kid's pillow, how about a pinecone? That way, he learns that "wishing" isn't going to…

— Jack Handey