A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks

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

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
Linda McCartney

I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.
George Mason

I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.
Glenn Danzig

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Thornton Wilder

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
Wole Soyinka

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

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Helen Rowland

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

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.
Alan Ladd

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
Joshua Chamberlain

The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.
Matt Groening

I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
Cameron Diaz

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.
Scott Caan

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

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

Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Horace

I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump.
Tre Cool