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Quotes About Wish

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
~ Jacqueline Carey
Listen, all I ask in the next life is to come back as a beautiful broad
~ Jacqueline Susann
I have no wish to stay here," he said, "in this wretched mausoleum of a country. Let us go to New York. I will make my future there. There is no future here, for a boy like me.
~ James Baldwin
Secrets never leave you in peace, however much you wish or pray.
~ James Clavell
Anyone can be a Son Of God if they wish to be and have the faith. I need to articulate this so everyone understands.
~ Andre Ward
I think that for people who are trying to make a difference, you have to start the company being naive. You wouldn't do it if you understood all the work. I work a lot. I wish it was easier.
~ Anne Wojcicki
If there is one phrase or action that every person on the planet would like to erase from his or her memory or have the chance to undo, it would be, 'Let's do it again.'
~ Cheech Marin
Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.
~ George Eliot
I know where I come from, where I am now and where the wish to go.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Wish for the best, problems will follow you, challenges will come in the way when you move on, and your wisdom of learning will save you!
~ Nazim Ambalath
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.
~ Ben Nelson
Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.
~ Nick Stahl
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.
~ Tim Curry
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.
~ Tom Robbins
Before, you were only a dream. Now you're a dream come true
~ Teresa Medeiros
Lucas Glover was the name of the man standing at the doorway in the heat. And though most called him Luke, he answered to either. Still, he suddenly wished that his name was a different one entirely and that he was standing anywhere else at that particular moment.
~ Terry M. West
I prayed in my heart for a real father, since the one I had been given was a failure to me. That was my deepest wish, and my deepest sorrow.
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
No deseo nada aunque lo deseo todo.
~ Theophile Gautier
The very wish to be right, down to its subtlest form of logical reflection, is an expression of the spirit of self-preservation which philosophy is precisely concerned to break down.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity
~ Theodor W. Adorno
To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they control it, wish to influence its direction.
~ Theodore Zeldin