Wish Quotes

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of our democratic order will be successful.

Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.

I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.

Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.

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.