Wish Quotes - Page 140

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

I wish I would have known Kurt Cobain. I would have been the first guy there to get him help, doing anything I could have. I just felt like the people around him kind of let him down.

I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.

We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea they really loved.

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

We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.

I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement.

When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.

I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?” “I’ve always been a stick-in-the-mud.” Her brother cast her a thin smile. “I just hid it beneath all the debauchery.” She sniffed. “I wish you’d hide it again. It’s quite annoying.

I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.

There will never again be a day exactly like today. There will never again be a moment exactly like this moment. After my next birthday, I will never again be the age I am right now. After midnight tonight, today will be part of history. Someday I'll be dying and I'll wish I'd done all the things I want to do now. Someday I'll be dead and I won't be able to do anything. But today, right now, I'm alive. And yet I'm writing nonsense on the back of my literature book. But I'm alive. And yet I'm just sitting here. But I'm alive.

I wish to confess my sins and I wish Christ to come into my life.

There is no immigration policy in the US that is permitting what's happening. What's happening here is happening outside the law, that our leaders do not wish to enforce or acknowledge. And the same thing happened in the UK.

Donald Trump does what everybody who voted for him wishes would happen every time the left pipes up.

I am not the kind of person that wants to enforce my wants, likes, desires, on everybody else. I have no desire that everybody like what I like. I have no desire everybody say what I want to hear said. I have no desire everybody stop whatever they're doing and listen to what I have to say. I have no desire that everybody agree. No, that's not true. I do wish everybody agreed, but I'm not gonna sit around and force that on people.

I deal with what "is," not with what I wish was or not with what was or used to be.

People that are that good at motivating and inspiring are rare. In many cases, you wish it was parents, and in many cases it is, but in a lot of cases it happens outside the family as well - or, in some cases, only.

I sometimes wish I weren't as logical as I am and I wish I weren't as smart as I am, because I'd be happy.