Wish Quotes

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.

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

There are so many people I wish I could have met:

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.