Wish Quotes

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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 you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.

We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside a independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence.

More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.

If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.