Wish Quotes

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

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.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

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 I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.

It is too late; now I wish I could live.

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.