To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would – I don’t know, I wish it upon everybody. It’s heaven.
I wish I had gone to Cannes with a film, but I had gone there for L’Oreal Pakistan. I cannot tell you the people that I was around, from Helen Mirren to Jane Fonda. It was a proud moment on the red carpet when they announced my name and said ‘Mahira Khan from Pakistan.’
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
Here’s a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.
Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness – all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had – outside of us.
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
Poets wish to profit or to please.
When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I’m right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
I’m very shy. I wish more people believed me when I say that.
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.
Everyone has their own tastes. Some people want to feel like it’s Queen onstage, including the dress-up thing, but that’s not my style. I do know some people love that and wish I would do it, but I have no interest in that.
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
My main wish is to get my books into other people’s rooms, and to keep other people’s books out of mine.
I love to never regret, or go, ‘I wish I would have tried that.’
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
I found being a teenager quite difficult, actually. I put a lot of pressure on myself, and now, looking back at it, I really wish that I had relaxed and just enjoyed it more.
Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president’s spouse. I wish him well!
I don’t wish jail on nobody, not even my worst enemies.
We wish to firmly demonstrate to the world our determination to eliminate all forms of illegal trade in ivory. Poachers and illegal trades in ivory must know that their days are numbered.
I wish they would only take me as I am.
My love of performing goes way back. My mom got me on ‘Romper Room’ when I was five – it was my favorite show. But they couldn’t control me. I would run up and smack the camera, and I’d jump around and do my little flips and routines. I wish I could get that tape now.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
I’d been out to a lot of people since 19. I wish to God it had happened then. I don’t think I would have the same career – my ego might not have been satisfied in some areas – but I think I would have been a happier man.
I wish to be clear: all foreign investments will be safe in Zimbabwe.
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Ugh – I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, ‘God, I wish I hadn’t eaten.’
More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn’t a manager.
I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
I wish people would take more care of the countryside.
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
As to my followers, I wish no man to follow me who is not sound at the heart in the cause of his country; and either at the head or in the ranks of these, I will always consider it my glory to be found.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
Sometimes you wish things would have been different. People still talk about the teams in Indiana. People can’t believe we didn’t win a championship.
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.
Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.
We call ourselves a dog’s ‘master’ – but who ever dared to call himself the ‘master’ of a cat? We own a dog – he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat – he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
