Wish Quotes

I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.

The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.'

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

We wish to work in total freedom.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage.

I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.

Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

I just want to say I owe the whole reds organization a great deal. Great staff top to bottom and I wish those guys all the best.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

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.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.