Wish Quotes

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.
Christopher Hitchens

Soul, Immortal, Worried

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
James Herriot

Trust, Children, Put

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Thomas a Kempis

Yourself, Cannot, Expect

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.
Jerry Saltz

Good, Art, Enough

I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galleries and museums takes up nearly all my time.
Jerry Saltz

Time, Person, Between

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
David Attenborough

Big, Half, Twice

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
John Lubbock

Good, Doubt, Done

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock

Important, Learn, Child

I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.
Jack White

Life, Important, Happen

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.
Daniel Craig

Best, Sexy, Someone

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.
Emma Thompson

Human, Kinder, Beings

It is legal because I wish it.
Louis XIV

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

Nothing, Lost, May

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka

Die, Beginning, Signs

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

Prayer, Definition, Merely

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.
Jimmy Carter

Life, Peace, Blessings

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
Louise Hart

Parenting, Children, Parents

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
Pierre Trudeau

Nothing, Whole, Accept

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.
Mariska Hargitay

Time, Learning, Wanted

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

Business, School, Boring

I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.
Layne Staley

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

Food, Children, Mean

I wish I were more disciplined.
Jeff Bridges

The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.
Terry Pratchett

Long, Game, Person

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
Gertrude Stein

Oh, Miser, Occupying

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
Danielle Berry

Time, Alone, Said

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.
Ahmed Yassin

Death, Victory, Until

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
Jimmy Carter

House, Known, White

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

Truth, Writing, Books

I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.
Demi Lovato

Food, Find, Living

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