Wish Quotes

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

I wish I could score everything for horns.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused.

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

We've probably never met, but I wish we had.