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Quotes About Wish

When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
~ Ovid
The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
~ Percy Ross
The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
~ Walter Duranty
I think every lady wishes their husband would cook.
~ Gino D'Acampo
Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.
~ Hailee Steinfeld
Just as like the music industry still wishes for the days when it controlled its own production and distribution, the media and marketing world still yearns for the silver bullet of the thirty-second spot on 'Seinfeld,' even as it knows those days are over.
~ John Battelle
I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.
~ Alicia Silverstone
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
~ Timothy Noah
There is no hint that Trump wishes to engage in or to foment violence against the enemies, such as immigrants, he has identified as undermining the American way of life.
~ Peter Bergen
A chiropractor wishes he were a doctor, just like those people outside Spago wish they were actors.
~ Teri Garr
The world probably wishes that Great Britain had rebuilt its defenses and stopped Germany from reoccupying the Rhineland in 1936.
~ Tom Cotton
It appears that President Trump wishes to disrupt the global multilateral trading system as much as possible.
~ Barry Gardiner
You know that genie where you get three wishes? One that has never changed for me is I would like to sing, and move an audience through song.
~ Henry Winkler
Wishing, hoping, and dreaming without an action plan - is nothing more than a pipe dream!
~ Dan Pena
I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.
~ Ice Cube
Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.
~ Arnold Rothstein
I'm always wishing for more intrigue and meaty stuff to do as an actor.
~ Gustaf Skarsgard
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the reality I was filming would conform to my narrative propriety. But you can't control it.
~ Ruth Ozeki
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.
~ Diane Lane
While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.
~ Alice Munro
I remember I was, like, 6 years old when I found out that I was having a little brother, and I was wishing and wishing for a sister. When my mom came out and my dad, and they're like, 'It's a boy,' Spencer, my twin brother, is cheering and jumping up and down, and then I burst into tears. I was so sad. I was crying.
~ Peyton List
My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether it be arguing about having a nicer package - because I do believe some people care about that - to trying to always bank on art-versus-the-easy-commerce route; there's always been headbutting involved.
~ Trent Reznor