Wish Quotes

9049 Wish quotes by 4630 unique authors

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but… — Olive Schreiner
Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o
I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I… — George W. Bush
American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once… — Ed Koch
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to… — Douglas Adams
I wish I could relate to the people I'm related to. — Jeff Foxworthy
Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery… — Hal Borland
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic… — C. Wright Mills
The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have… — Prince Philip
The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and… — Sunita Narain
If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes.… — Enid Bagnold
It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught… — Maria Jeritza
A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's… — Jerry Smith
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in… — H. L. Mencken
I wish no living thing to suffer pain. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I almost died and everyday, I wish I did. — Piolo Pascual
There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and… — Louise Dickinson Rich
I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball. — Pete Rose
I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come… — Rafael Palmeiro
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at… — Hal Boyle
So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest and seem very sure of,… — Helen Oyeyemi

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