Wished Quotes

My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.

I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished.

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.

In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.