Wish Quotes - Page 126

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't

I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.

Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.

We all wish we were better. I wish I were a better artist, wish I were a kinder person, wish I were all kinds of things. But we're stuck with ourselves. I have good friends. And that in itself convinces me that I deserve to live.

I was always nervous, always scared. That's stayed with me my whole life. I think it's all our genes. We're all stuck with ourselves. I wish I were calm. Never get scared, always calm, but that's not me. I panic easily.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

I realize that you have to be careful sometimes what you wish for.

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

The Statue of Liberty really is profound, I just wish she'd lighten up a bit.

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.

I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic.

I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.

I wish I had that carefree lifestyle. But I guess I'm more private, and more inside.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?