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

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
Mick Jagger

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
J. R. R. Tolkien

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

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
George Armstrong Custer

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
Jack Kevorkian

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
Sitting Bull

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
Sitting Bull

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
Sitting Bull

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
George MacDonald

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
Joseph Addison

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

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
W. H. Auden

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
John Ruskin

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
Shia LaBeouf