Wish Quotes

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
Cheri Huber

Enjoy, Here, Stop

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
Bette Davis

I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.
Charles Perrault

Heart, May, Able

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
Charlize Theron

Mom, Mother, Single

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Time, Wait, Action

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
Pope Paul VI

War, Again, Brothers

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!
Dave Barry

True, Job, Words

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
Queen Elizabeth II

Sympathy, Past, Deep

One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.
Jennifer Aniston

Wedding, Two, Friends

I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.
Curt Schilling

Good, Hate, Person

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing, Remarkable

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
Robert Southey

Mind, Impossible, Step

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.
Jeanne Moreau

Whatever, Guilt

He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.
Ovid

Hate, Destroyed, Whom

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
Bo Bennett

Good, Past, Person

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar

Men, Willing, Nearly

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Mother, Father, Parents

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.
David Bowie

Song, Expression, Songs

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Barbara Bush

Someone, May, Him

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.
Paul Lynde

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

Enough, Light, Prayer

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
Charles Kuralt

Life, Job, Interested

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
Alanis Morissette

Happiness, Realize, Order

I only wish I had more time for fund raising.
Nido Qubein

Time, Raising, Fund

I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.
Greta Garbo

Strong, Everything, Put

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
Christopher Hitchens

Time, Live, Long

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Good, Others

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more.
Christopher Hitchens

Done, Small, Proud

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.
Christopher Hitchens

Good, Bad, Human

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
Christopher Hitchens

Power, Thought, American

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