Wish Quotes

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

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 beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.
Imelda Marcos

Peace, War, Islam

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Person, Perfect

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

Men, Liberty, Few

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

Morning, Wake, Hadn

I wish I could be elegant.
Robert Mapplethorpe

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

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Jacob Bronowski

Men, Hurt, Pain

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

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.
Stella McCartney

Sometimes, Less, Sensible

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

Done, Through, Play

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 keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.
Matt LeBlanc

Life, Waiting, Live

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

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

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

Meet, Paris, Quantity

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

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

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 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

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

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
Yoko Ono

Work, Through, Message

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.
Tom Hanks

Romantic, Looking, Audience

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

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.
Hugh Mackay

Suffering, Countries, Policy

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

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
Conrad Veidt

Someone, May, Write

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

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