Wish Quotes

9049 Wish quotes by 4630 unique authors

Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of… — Thucydides
It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes. — Ovid
I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory. — Augustus
Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory. — Augustus
If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play… — John McEnroe
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say… — Archibald MacLeish
I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam, — Charles Babbage
I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which… — Unknown Author
I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to… — Mike Huckabee
I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist.… — Michele Bachmann
Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die. — Thom Yorke
I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that, maybe,… — Thom Yorke
If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever. — Thom Yorke
He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors. — Johannes Itten
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. — Piet Mondrian
We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish… — Mark Rothko
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more… — Alfred Bester
How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in… — Aron Nimzowitsch
I wish I had more time to visit schools. — Cornelia Funke
I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true. — Laurie Halse Anderson
Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents are dealing with… — Laurie Halse Anderson
But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right.… — Claudia Schiffer
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. — Carlo Goldoni
And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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