Top 95 Wishing Quotes

As a young girl, I would watch the Miss South Africa competition wishing with all my heart that one day I, too, would be able to walk on that stage, just like those glamorous women I saw on television.

Before I moved to the city I spent every Saturday sitting in church wishing I could be living on my own, doing what I wanted.

It’s a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else’s tragedy.

Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.

Many people use the words ‘death defying’ or ‘death wishing’ when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: ‘So do you have a death wish?’ After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It’s indecent. I have a life wish.

What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn’t sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He’s hoping that he would fight back.

That’s the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it’ll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

I understand being alone. I understand not liking it, wishing for something else.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

I think that because human difference for so long, in all its various forms, has been the root of so much oppression, sometimes there’s the impulse to say let’s deny the difference, as though by wishing away the difference we can then wish away the oppression.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Everybody in the world has a different reason for wishing they could say things that most people know not to say.

In dream consciousness… we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

Yeah, I’ve done Jim Breuer’s radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got ‘Mike & Molly,’ wishing me congratulations. I’m always the last one to the party, man. But that’s okay. I got there.

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

When you’re a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.

When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.

Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

When the Eagles started, I was the best-known one in the band. I remember when Poco would play the Troubador, Glenn and Don would be in front of the stage, drooling and wishing they were in the band. But they’d never admit that now.

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

I feel that women – without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero – indeed have a need for their own publications and organizations. Our problems, our experiences as women are profoundly unique as compared to the other half of the human race.

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves.

I really like ‘Wish U Were Here.’ It’s about being on tour, but really missing someone and wishing she was there with me. I shot the music video at different places all around the country, where I’ve been on tour.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

I remember watching somebody called Esmee Denters doing covers that were really popular and wishing that was me. But I’m glad it wasn’t. Things have worked out OK.

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, ‘Let’s make a wish on a star,’ there’s one thing I wish for: wisdom.

My life has changed. I’m not walking around any more wishing I wasn’t me, which was the case at one time.

I would never come out and say I was gay, because I’m not gay. And there’s part of me that kind of wishes I was gay, and I think that that comes from anybody who is constantly wishing they were in the minority, you know, and constantly wants to be kind of fighting everybody off, you know?

Wishing of all employments is the worst.

It’s bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you’re just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

It’s never gone so far as me wishing I’d never done ‘Quadrophenia,’ but there was a time when I wouldn’t talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

No matter how successful I may get, I’ll always be a failed musician, sitting at a concert double-fisting overpriced twenty-ounce beers, wishing it was me on stage brooding soulfully to my fans. I had my shot once, but I let it slip through my fingers.

When I went to the all-Ireland final – Kerry against Dublin – I couldn’t get away for an hour and a half with people coming up and wishing me all the best. Not one of them said, ‘Martin, when did you leave the IRA?’ But every one of them knew I was in the IRA at one stage.

People say, oh it’s a shame, you’re not nostalgic about the ’60s. Well actually, it’s quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn’t it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

It’s un-American for anyone to be wishing harm upon our president.

I think I’ve been wishing for celebrity for so long that I’ve got used to being someone who’s petitioning the establishment for acceptance… my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don’t really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You’re cleaning up vomit and it’s 2 in the morning, and you’re wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

As an actor there are times when you’re sitting around and wishing you were working, so you’ve got to just take it when it comes.

Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godhead.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

I grew up a Suns fan, I grew up a guy just wishing I could – I remember sitting up there in high seats with my parents, just watching the game.

I don’t believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

I like to do things that are publicly embarrassing, to feel the embarrassment touch me and sink into me and then be gone. I like getting on elevators and singing too loudly in that small space. The feeling you feel is almost like a vapor. The discomfort and the wishing that it would end that comes around you.

Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.

You have to have a plan. This isn’t wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation – like, ‘I hope one day …’ – let’s claim it now.