Wish Quotes

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it.

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.

I wish I could be elegant.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.