Wish Quotes

I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.

In defence, I have cultivated a death wish.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.

We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around.

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.