Wish Quotes

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
Hugh Laurie

Happiness, Good, Someone

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
Georges Bernanos

God, Prayer, Ask

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

Fool, Looking, Break

I wish that I did the things that I really believe in, because when I do, my life goes much smoother.
Cher

Life, Goes, Smoother

I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.
Murray Walker

Different, Service, System

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
Louise J. Kaplan

Future, Emotional, Powerful

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.
Loretta Lynn

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.
George McGovern

Knowledge, Made, Problems

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust

Men, Liberty, Few

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza

Proud, Taken, Flattery

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Hesiod

Marriage, Age, Women

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
Jon Meacham

Best, History, Government

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Morning, Wake, Hadn

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
Tony Blair

Small, Often, Religious

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
Islom Karimov

Life, Good, Live

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.
Luis Miguel

Life, Good, Great

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
Tallulah Bankhead

Free, Ambition, Absolutely

I love 'The Office.' I'm in the premiere, and I'm maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I've been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year - I am a good Asian kid who was an A student - I wish I could be there to the end to see things through.
Mindy Kaling

Love, Good, End

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Trying, Goes, Unless

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.
James Buchan

Between, Line, Clear

I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.
Chloe Sevigny

Beautiful, Mother, Father

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
Dean Koontz

Past, Long, Books

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
Lech Walesa

Peace, Freedom, Live

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. Naipaul

Meet, Paris, Quantity

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
Gary Oldman

Life, Liked, John

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
Elizabeth Bowen

Feeling, Loved, Seen

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
Rollo May

Freedom, Human, Choose

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.
Christopher Walken

Good, Business, Movies

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.
Tommy Chong

Change, Experience, Place

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.
Buddy Rich

Everything, Done, Through

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