Wish Quotes

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

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.

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

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.

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.