Wish Quotes · Page 136

I wish I could see His plan for me. But I guess that'd ruin the whole 'live and learn' aspect of life.

— Anonymous

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias,…

— Umberto Eco

The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we…

— Prince Philip

Marriage is amazing, and I wish every person on this planet to have a blissful marriage.

— Jennifer Winget

People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if…

— Peace Pilgrim

On your birthday . . . Have a cuppa, kick off your shoes, sit back and relax ? you deserve it! Best…

— Margaret Jones

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much…

— Ron Paul

Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.

— Hector Bianciotti

As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns.…

— Robert Rankin

I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them…

— Ayn Rand

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes, I wish the garage days were here again. I used to love that, when you're eating Taco Bell and tuna fish…

— Steve Harwell

[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is manifestly idiotic to believe that Israel, with five million Jewish citizens and one million Arab citizens, will concede to the…

— Uri Avnery

O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her…

— Erica Jong

If it's your wish, I will follow you everywhere even if your throne crumbles, and your shiny crown turns to rust. Even…

— Yana Toboso

I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.

— Jennifer Garner

Stop wishing for things you complain you have not, and start making the best of all that you've got.

— Helen Steiner Rice

If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put…

— Francois Rabelais

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to…

— Heinrich von Treitschke

It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.

— Samuel Beckett

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself

— Groucho Marx

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

— Barbra Streisand

When you feel your child truly loves you back, it makes you wish you had kissed your parents more.

— Carol Ann Susi

I hate everything about traveling but I love to explore new locations so I wish I could snap and arrive somewhere whenever…

— Melissa Joan Hart

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Despite our wish we aren’t always able to be who we’d like to be. However, who we are is what makes us…

— Victor Bello Accioly

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

— Dodie Smith

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Just as it is necessary to breathe out regularly in order to receive fresh air into the lungs, so it is necessary…

— Catherine Ponder

Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.

— James Harden

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

— Maria Montessori

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish -- well, I take…

— Holland Taylor

Oh, how you wish you had something to be truly depressed about. And how I wish I didn't.

— Anonymous

For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place…

— Alfred Nobel

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

— Mark Twain

My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted…

— Linda McMahon

I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved…

— Toni Morrison

We all wish we could stay with one franchise and it work out the way it work out but it doesn't necessarily…

— Big K.R.I.T

I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking…

— Anne Lamott