Wish Quotes

No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body if we wish the spirit to function normally.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.

Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

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.

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, "Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!" We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.