Wish Quotes

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

~ Daniel Day-Lewis

I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.

~ Che Guevara

Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.

~ Munshi Premchand

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

~ Bernie Siegel

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

~ Wole Soyinka

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

~ Judith Light

I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.

~ Shekhar Kapur

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

~ Cesare Pavese

Homemade stuffing is my favorite thing about Thanksgiving. I wish people served it more than just once a year.

~ Troy Gentile

My every birthday wish was, 'I want to someday be on TV.'

~ Awkwafina

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

~ Lionel Blue

I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.

~ Gilbert Gottfried

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

~ James D. Watson

I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.

~ Marilyn Manson

I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

~ Ann Jillian

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

~ Philip Johnson

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

~ Mitt Romney

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

~ Linda Mccartney

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

~ John Witherspoon

I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career.

~ Hugh Grant

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

~ Paul Lynde

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

~ Julius Caesar

When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real people. Not the people of your imagination. Not the people you wish people would be. But people as they exist actually out there in the real world.

~ Norman Finkelstein

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

~ Martin Luther King

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

~ Raoul Dufy

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

~ Orson Welles

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

~ Thomas Jefferson

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

~ Major Taylor

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

~ William Henry Harrison

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

~ Henry Knox

I've never been speed dating! I sort of wish I had, just for the experience of it.

~ America Ferrera

It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.

~ Carrot Top

I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.

~ Chris Kattan

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

~ Billie Piper

Be as you wish to seem.

~ Socrates

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

~ Publilius Syrus

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

~ William Butler Yeats