Wish Quotes

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.
Frank Sinatra

Hurt, Someone, Try

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Plato

Power, Same, Less

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
Chris Rock

Life, Stupidity, Sometimes

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
Leo Buscaglia

Freedom, Free, Ourselves

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Success, Nothing, Everything

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir

Life, Freedom, Human

I just wish I could understand my father.
Michael Jackson

Father, Understand

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
Michael Jackson

Love, Work, Family

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne

Forget, Nothing, Memory

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.
Mitch Hedberg

Before, Play, League

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
Martin Luther

Men, May, Opinions

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.
Mitt Romney

Lost, May, Attention

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
Groucho Marx

Shall, Written, Agent

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.
Mitt Romney

Help, America, Moment

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Mistakes, Rather

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mind, Words, Listen

We cannot wish for that we know not.
Voltaire

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Carly Fiorina

Power, Strength, Courage

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese

Travel, Light, Off

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James M. Barrie

Life, Dreams, True

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach

Work, Power, True

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Marcus Aurelius

Time, Good, Long

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You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
Andrew Jackson

Blessing, Pay, Price

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas a Kempis

Yourself, Angry, Cannot

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Mean, Him, Write

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard Bach

Happiness, Friend, Gift

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Further, Wished

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Dale Carnegie

Three, Actually, Gave

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
Mitt Romney

Marriage, Great, Both

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Epictetus

Find, Wishes, Bring

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