Wish Quotes - Page 185

They are all I have left—the stars and the memory of the many times I wished upon them. But with all those wishes, I asked for only one thing. To see him again. But I will not see him again. I do not see him now.

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.

What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.

I don't wish to embarrass anyone.

The fact that you wish to become extremely successful must mean that you currently do not see yourself as such. Therefore, you need to change. The question you should be asking is what do you need to become?

If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.

I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.

I wish I could take back every interview. Over and over again, I read them later, and either I'm misquoted or I said something stupid. I'm just not very good at it.

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.

Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience.

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

you've got to wish for something the whole time when you're seventeen. You've got to, or there's nothing to live for. However impossible you've got to think you want it. ... When I couldn't think of a thing I wanted I nearly died.

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection the oldest monuments of the earth's history, so far at least as relates to its earliest inhabitants.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.