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Quotes About Wish

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
~ Roy Lichtenstein
When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.
~ W. H. Auden
Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.
~ Neville Goddard
A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude. -Clary, pg.243-
~ Cassandra Clare
She had wished for someone to love, and who would love her, to share her life with.
~ Danielle Steel
Most often, the reason something is on your mind is that you want it to be different than it currently is
~ David Allen
And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.
~ David Foster Wallace
Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.
~ David Foster Wallace
It says: 'Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.
~ David Foster Wallace
I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.
~ William Shakespeare
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life
~ William Shakespeare
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.
~ William Shakespeare
When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.
~ William Shakespeare
I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
~ William Shakespeare
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought
~ William Shakespeare
I would I were thy bird.
~ William Shakespeare
What our contempt often hurls from us, We wish it our again; the present pleasure, By revolution lowering, does become The opposite of itself
~ William Shakespeare
I have a wife I love. I wish she were in heaven so she could appeal to some power to make this dog Jew change his mind. NERISSA It's nice you're offering to sacrifice her behind her back. That wish of yours could start quite an argument back at home.
~ William Shakespeare
I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
~ William Shakespeare
Bist du zu feige, / Derselbe Mann zu sein in Tat und Mut, / Der du in Wünschen bist?
~ William Shakespeare
When I saw my little sister kneeling in the center of that snow-white circle, and that old crutch laying on the ground beside her, I forgot about ponies and .22s. I wanted my little sister to get that old leg of hers fixed up. I wanted that more than anything I had ever wanted in my life. That was going to be my wish. Once
~ Wilson Rawls
I feared the wish was father to the thought.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I have it from the highest American authorities that it is their wish that their troops should receive direct orders. They say their Army has been framed more on Prussian lines than on the more smooth British lines, and that American commanders expect to receive positive orders, which they will immediately obey.
~ Winston S. Churchill
After the death of all living creatures, all our unfulfilled wishes and unspoken words will go on drifting in the stratosphere, they will combine with one another and linger upon the earth like fog. What will this fog look like in the eyes of the living? Will they fail to remember the dead and instead indulge in banal meteorological conversations like: It's foggy today, don't you think?
~ Y?ko Tawada