Wish Quotes

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
William Temple

Time, Between, Purpose

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!
Barbara Bush

Someone, May, Him

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Barbra Streisand

Time, Necessary, Lived

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
Havelock Ellis

Knowledge, Old, Longer

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston

Distance, Board, Ships

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
Thor Heyerdahl

Peace, Great, War

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.
Martin Scorsese

Money, Two, Another

I wish I could do everything in 3D.
Martin Scorsese

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
W. H. Auden

Alive, Granted, Quite

The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
Paul Martin

Marriage, Religious, Leaders

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
Shia LaBeouf

Art, Less, Passionate

If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.
Shia LaBeouf

Good, Night, Actor

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.
John Mayer

Sometimes, Weather, Talk

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'
David Hockney

Work, Saying, Mean

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.
Janice Dickinson

Age, Sober, Younger

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.
Godfrey Reggio

Freedom, Experience, Through

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
Leon Kass

Mean, Nobody, Countries

Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!
Billy Corgan

Live, Die, Choice

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
Bob Seger

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
Barbra Streisand

Bad, Said, Once

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.
Robert Mugabe

Peace, Before, State

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.
Annie Lennox

Life, Hurt, Mother

I wish I knew what I know now before.
Rod Stewart

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Experience, Working, Once

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Work, Same, Point

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
Jean Baudrillard

Dreams, Statistics

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
Jean Kerr

Women, Find, Speak

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
Madeleine Albright

Hard, Matter, Able

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.
Stephen Fry

Love, Work, Person

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
Novalis

Home, Philosophy, Everywhere

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