Top 570 Wish Quotes

What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.

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

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

I’ve had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish – well, I take that back – there are a couple I could have done without.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

People say, ‘Oh, God, how devastating to go through a divorce.’ Did I wish for this to happen to my family? No. But everyone is healthy; we’re moving on with our lives.

No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.

I don’t have big anxieties. I wish I did. I’d be much more interesting.

My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren’t small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!

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.

‘The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,’ by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

I’m not here to make everyone love me. I wish they would.

I just want to play like Jimi Hendrix. I love other forms of music and wish I could play classical piano, or saxophone like John Coltrane, but that will never happen. Because my nature is to play electric guitar really well and to emulate my heroes from the late 1960s.

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade – or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don’t listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They’re games. They prepare you for nothing.

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

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

I’m the type of person that doesn’t like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, ‘I wish my label would book me some studio time,’ if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn’t. I wish I could’ve just let it slide and not cared about it.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

I’m one of those people where, if I go back and look at it, I’m going to feel like, ‘I wish I would have… ‘ I need to just leave it on the floor. What’s done is done.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

I have the most dreadfully appalling eyesight. I’m really shortsighted and have been since I was about five. I was the speccy girl with the pink National Health glasses. That’s my physical vulnerability, and I wish I could put it right, but I can’t – even with surgery.

I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

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.

Some days I want to look like a hipster kid, and then other days I want to be prim and proper. I really wish I had, like, seven lives so I could go from being a hipster one day to a punk the next. But that’s the great thing about fashion. In a way, it’s like acting, because you can try on all these different roles.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God’s will.

Aparshakti has his own journey, and as a sibling, I can only wish him good luck. I would also love to work with him as an actor.

It is everybody’s wish to work with Mani Ratnam.

Childhood was abusive and horrible, I endured some stuff I don’t even want to talk about. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

I wish there was a museum of sorts for legends like Ellis R Dungan and many others who disappear with the turn of page in the book of time.

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

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.

Oh, I have very limited will power. I wish I could change that. I am working on it, though. I am too easygoing.

I wish all happiness, good health and togetherness to those close to me.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I’d love it.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

Both ‘Oz’ and ‘Homicide,’ they’re critically admired, so it’s not like they’re really neglected, but I wish they’d found bigger audiences.

I wish there was a news channel that really told you what was going on in the world, not just sensationalized news.

My ‘Collaboration Wish List’ is a mile long.

Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.

I play a lot of football, but let me tell ya, I am nowhere near as good as Jamie Tartt. I wish that I could play football like he does.

It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

My brother Alan – who was seven years younger than me – died from leukemia when he was 52. He never knew a day’s good health – I wish I could have given him some of my good health. But he was always so cheerful and sweet.

Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He’s hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I’m guessin’ he’s a good-lookin’ guy – although he’s not one of ‘People’ magazine’s sexiest men.