Top 570 Wish Quotes

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
Nathan Hale
Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
Thor Heyerdahl
I wish I owned stock in Nicorette. I love Nicorette. Best invention ever.
Justin Theroux
It is legal because I wish it.
Louis XIV
I am not excited about Bitcoin. I think it’s an outrage that, in an era of global warming, there are racks of servers next to the Columbia River. I wish I could explain to the salmon that we’ve created a dam generating hydroelectric power so that we can generate a fake currency.
Glenn Kelman
That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
Samuel Johnson
I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn’t there an enormous building in Washington called the ‘National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns’ to lobby for us?
Larry Kramer
I always said I was very grateful for Chelsea. I spent an amazing time of my career there, we won a lot of trophies, and I think I became a better player. I have great friends in the club, and I always wish the best for them.
Juan Mata
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
Sometimes I wish I was more shrewd.
Ralph Macchio
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you’ll need right up to the day you die.
William T. Wiley
I wish I could turn back time. Unfortunately, I can’t.
Tim Donaghy
Taxes are important. President Bush’s tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
Andy Rooney
Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I’d rather be the person that’s like, ‘I messed up,’ than, ‘I wish I did that.’
Justine Skye
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian
It’s fun when you start a movie, because it’s kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping… you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.
Spike Jonze
I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.
Marilyn Monroe
I can never make up my mind if I’m happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
Ian Anderson
I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.
Ron Perlman
I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.
Hillary Clinton
I hope, by God’s grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jan Hus
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you’re bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven’t a chance.
William Gilbert
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, w

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.
Fidel Castro
I don’t run outside, honestly. Sometimes I go out around my house, but mainly it’s the stupid treadmill. I wish I had a better answer, but I’m very businesslike about my runs.
Drew Carey
I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that’s not really what happiness is.
Alanis Morissette
I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.
Gordon B. Hinckley
I wish you could make money and people never saw what you did. Then you could relax and not care about how bad you are.
Travis Fimmel
I seek no longer to be a ‘famous’ person, and instead I wish to live a ‘normal’ life.
Sinead O’Connor
Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two million. It is an awesome and mysterious skill.
Michael Ian Black
All the main parties accept that the stated wish of the United Kingdom electorate to leave the E.U. must be respected. That must place on us collectively a responsibility to work together to find a solution.
Dominic Grieve
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
Queen Rania of Jordan
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Baltasar Gracian
I don’t wish stardom on anyone. When I hear people say, ‘this guy’s a star,’ I always say, ‘good luck.’
B. J. Armstrong
Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there’s a point where I wish that it wasn’t, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that’s not my call.
Danny Elfman
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.
Claude Vorilhon
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Julius Caesar
I have moles and freckles, and they irritate me. They are an insecurity of mine, and I wish I could have clear, beautiful skin.
Khloe Kardashian
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
Elihu Root
Love your enemies… it’s not always an easy tenet to live by… and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.
Lea Salonga
I’m greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I’m happy to be busy.
Rakul Preet Singh
I only wish the sport of shooting was more reachable and there were training centers all over the country where youngsters could go and try shooting.
Abhinav Bindra
The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
Margaret Cho
What’s the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn’t.
Morrissey
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
George MacDonald
When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.
Christopher Hitchens
Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage. But it’s one of those things that happens. Every year the level is getting higher, and I think we surprise a lot of people when the world focuses its attention on the World Cup or the Olympics final.
Marta
I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.
Anthony Bourdain
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
Francisco de Quevedo
We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
John Buford
It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, exc

It’s weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.
Carrot Top
Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.
Pink
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka
I am a Conservative, so I don’t wish to be seen as a rebel, particularly, at all.
Dominic Grieve
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
Dalai Lama
I wish for a world where people understand that life is short. So today’s the time to do big things.
Robin S. Sharma
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach
Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.
Meir Soloveichik
I have zero animosity with Samoa Joe. I found him my first day back at WWE after my injury and we had a very good heart to heart. I wish him nothing but the best.
Tyson Kidd
I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.
Johan Renck
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 trained for the drums for about two weeks, and then rocking out in front of an entire crowd was sort of like a dream come true. And now, Guitar Hero, I can’t do that anymore. It’s nothing like doing it on stage. I kinda wish I had a fake band, and we could go on tour.
Devon Bostick