Top 570 Wish Quotes

I wish BTS could set up a model for k-pop with the best music and content so we have a positive impact on the U.S. music scene.
Jimin
We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
Calvin Coolidge
Why would you envy a man who doesn’t know the names of all the planets, is a ‘high functioning’ sociopath, and has no friends? Because Sherlock Holmes thinks in all the ways we wish we could.
Kyle Hill
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
Barbra Streisand
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world’s people.
Jacque Fresco
I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first album, I feel like I wish the production was a little better. I’ll always hear a song I don’t like. I look for what I could have done to make it better. It’s always difficult for me to listen.
Johnny Ramone
A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I’d said something cool, but I was stunned.
Jason Biggs
You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
George Armstrong Custer
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?
Evangelista Torricelli
President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, ‘I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.’ I’m not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.
Bob Dole
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.
Sylvia Plath
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
I wish I’d started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
Naomi Watts
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
Earl Nightingale
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell
I have a reputation for drinking a lot. Indeed, I drink quite much. However, I give it up when I wish to do so. I never, ever drink while on duty. The drinking is only for my pleasure. I do not remember neglecting my duties because of drinking even once.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
When you stop doing something, it doesn’t mean you are rejecting the previous work. That’s the mistake; it’s not rejecting it, it’s saying, ‘I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.’
David Hockney
I wish I did have time to relax, but I’m a Virgo and it’s just not in me.
Eva Marie
My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn’t exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.
Ryan McGinley
I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.
Saint Ignatius
I’ve always loved painting and drawing. I wish I’d developed it more and exhibited.
Mary Quant
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley
Ohio’s doing what it can do, but I wish they’d get their act together in Washington.
John Kasich
I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us c

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That’s all any of us can hope for.
April Winchell
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character – teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
Mo Rocca
If you wish to have free access to the single market, then you have to accept the fundamental rights as well as obligation that come from it.
Angela Merkel
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Thomas Berger
My wish would be for positive representation and more diversity coming from Hollywood.
Mena Massoud
We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions.
Jose Rizal
I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn’t happen. That is my only – fear – in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn’t get abused.
Scott Bakula
I wouldn’t wish my worst enemy bad luck.
Rob Cross
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Phil McGraw
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Blaise Pascal
I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.
Kurt Cobain
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Lewis B. Smedes
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin
One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.
Kevin Kwan
I do wish my breasts were bigger. Not big… but less small.
Calista Flockhart
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Caste has divided us. I wish it should be completely abolished from our society.
Vijay Sethupathi
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
When I’m writing fiction I’m thinking, God, this is so hard – I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don’t have to be so much at sea.
Douglas Preston
It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
Saint Ambrose
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, Jr.
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
Marcus Valerius Martial
I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can’t. But that’s okay. I’m tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs.
Adam Driver
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Saint Augustine
While I respect all genders, I do not wish to acknowledge homosexuals as I have been taught that God created man and woman with specific characteristics and duties.
Choi Si-won
Curt Hennig was one of best guys I ever wrestled. If I could’ve come back and wrestled one last match, I wish I could’ve wrestled Curt. He was my favorite guy to wrestle.
Bret Hart
I wish people would look at me and think, ‘Well, someone like that exists!’ Accept the difference.
Sulli
I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.
Kenny Marchant
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
John Boyd Orr
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
Franz Liszt
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
Ovid
I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my ex

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
Richard M. Nixon
I’m the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
Irvine Welsh
I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.
Paul Walker
Loneliness is, like, when you wish someone else was there, and solitude is when you enjoy being alone. I don’t always wanna be alone, but I definitely like pockets of solitude to recharge and come back to myself. I think that’s so important for everyone.
Jonathan Van Ness
When you wish upon a star, you just might become one.
Paula Abdul
I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it.
Nick Kroll
I’m a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.
Abbie Hoffman
I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.
Bryan Cranston
It’s great to have financial support. But having someone’s emotional support is something that I wish I had more of growing up.
Erika Jayne