Wish Quotes

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Love, Society, Sex

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.
Sheryl Sandberg

Success, Work, Women

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
David Duchovny

Patience, Skill

98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against.
David Duchovny

Person, Against, Takes

My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.'
Katherine Jenkins

God, Thought, Remember

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

God, Happy, Wise

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
Tom Lehrer

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Nothing, Remarkable

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
Barbra Streisand

Privacy, Ambitious, Talked

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
Brendan Behan

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
Annie Leibovitz

Nature, Living, Energy

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.
Fred Durst

Feeling, Why, Insecure

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
Susanna Moodie

Husband, Lie, Down

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Samuel Richardson

Friend, Tell, Hear

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
Walter Bagehot

Long, Wrong, Conscience

I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.
Jennifer Garner

Cute, Pregnant, Wear

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

Family, Painful, Otherwise

Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was back. Ideally, this spin-off would be an Ice Storm-esque exploration of the West Beverly gang's bleak adult lives.
Diablo Cody

Old, Honest, Lives

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
Harold Ramis

Family, Time, Hard

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Phil McGraw

Yourself, Someone, Give

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Life, Stupid, May

Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
Marc Andreessen

Time, God, Around

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
Marc Andreessen

Time, Good, God

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
Sara Paretsky

Life, Remember, Put

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'
Kristen Stewart

Love, Time, Home

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.
Kristen Stewart

Love, Time, Home

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
David Mamet

Society, Important, Someone

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
William Law

Love, God, Soul

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
Luc de Clapiers

Difficult, Esteem, Highly

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian

Wise, Foolish, Seem

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