Wish Quotes

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.
Fred G. Gosman

Death, Parents, Child

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.
James Collins

Teacher, Sports, Book

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.
Erskine Bowles

Said, Plan, Tax

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
Lydia M. Child

Change, Women, Important

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor

Time, Good, Why

I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.
Gene Wolfe

Age, Best, Children

I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!
Earl Monroe

Music, Family, Two

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.
Tim Meadows

Movies, Movie, Though

Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.
Aristide Briand

Together, Europe, Exist

You should give no indication that we wish the three-way division of Bosnia.
Franjo Tudjman

Give, Bosnia, Division

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.
Elmer Bernstein

Music, Rock, Someone

The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
Yul Vazquez

Life, Bad, Ignore

I just want to say I owe the whole reds organization a great deal. Great staff top to bottom and I wish those guys all the best.
Dontrelle Willis

Great, Best, Whole

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.
Peter Sellers

Experience, Person, Screen

There's a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal.
Prince Harry

Brother, Times, Both

Don't sit and wish for some ideal; the grass is not always greener with the big house and cars and artwork.
Jonathan Coleman

Big, House, Cars

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.
Phillip Phillips

Home, Cool, Night

I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that.
Christie Brinkley

Face, Guess, Sideways

I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.
Roger McGough

Used, Word, Whimsical

Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.
Ruth Brown

Music, Understand, Before

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.
Julie Doucet

Life, Work, Art

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
Herman Wouk

Reality, Between, Illusion

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.
David A. Siegel

Men, Business, Small

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
Alfred Nobel

Whether, Shall, Express

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.
Karl Radek

Mean, Against, Means

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.
Kim Hunter

Time, Lost, Same

The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.
Juan Antonio Samaranch

Family, Movement, Project

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.'
Nicholas Meyer

Life, Done, Moments

I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow.
Kylie Bax

Hair, Head, Grow

I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.
Kylie Bax

Truth, Woman, Tell

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