Wish Quotes

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gender and just take a closer look at what's really going on in the world today, and say enough is enough!

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body if we wish the spirit to function normally.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.

Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

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 I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.