Wish Quotes

I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.

It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

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.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

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 can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.