Wish Quotations | Page 2

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.

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

I was encouraged that a group of women wanted to start WISH List, which works like EMILY's List, only it supports pro-choice Republican women. It was started by one of our members, and I was happy to tell her how we did it and encourage her.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day.

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

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

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.

I wish I could say that Carla Bruni's Guess campaign at age 16 led to her current role as First Lady of France, but that might be a stretch.

More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

I think in the world we need more comedy. I wish so much that we could embrace that side of us more. I love to escape through watching comedy, and I wish for more of that in the future.

John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish I'd had the chance to make more music with him, of course, and to get to know him better.

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

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.

I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now.

My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

You appear to have a good project... we wish you well in this endeavor.

Some things youll never know, and some things youll wish you never knew.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

I wish I could play the World Cup; thats one of my dreams.

There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.

Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

Sometimes I wish I lived more in the day, but I'm happier thinking about tomorrow or the day after. The way I see it, there's always a new or next thing.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

In Yellowstone National Park there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

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!

Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.

If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

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

I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves it.

What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

There are movies and TV shows I wish we didn't make, sure, but we're in the business of creating things that are not all going to work.

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.