Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
~ John Henry Newman
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
~ William Hazlitt
Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.
~ Stevie Wonder
I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.
~ Ryan Tedder
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
~ Max Lerner
Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
~ Mahmoud Abbas
I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
~ Cara Delevingne
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I wish I was told to look after my teeth when I was younger. My smile is really important to me and one of my biggest assets, so I'm very conscious that I need to keep it in top condition.
~ Louise Nurding
If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.
~ Tom Hanks
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
~ Luigi Pirandello
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
~ Mortimer Adler
I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.
~ Chely Wright
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
~ Jesus Christ
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
~ Julius Caesar
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
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
~ Horace
Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
~ Marie De France
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
~ Carl Jung
I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
~ Rachel Mcadams
My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.
~ Gary Lineker
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.
~ Dustin Lynch
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
~ Friedrich August Von Hayek
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
~ Malcolm Boyd
What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?
~ Tom Stoppard
It is legal because I wish it.
~ Louis Xiv
The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.
~ Jonathan Zittrain
I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.
~ Rosie O'donnell
I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.
~ Garth Davis
There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.
~ Wynton Marsalis
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
~ Rollo May
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
~ Epictetus
I just wish I could understand my father.
~ Michael Jackson
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
~ Aldous Huxley
