Wish Quotes

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.

It is too late; now I wish I could live.

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

I wish that my husband's friends had left him where he is, happy and contented in retirement.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.