Wish Quotes

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

I just wish I could understand my father.

I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.

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 wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for.

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

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.

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.