Wish Quotes - Page 59

Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.

Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.

I do not enter discussions with neighbors who think they can forbid me to think. I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's wish to kill me. When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him-by force.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

I always make a wish at 11:11, even if its something cheesy.

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

I wish I were more disciplined.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

We must be the compassion we wish to see in others!

Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.

At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.

[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.

I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream!

Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely accord with our true policy and interest. If they do not, to observe a proper line of conduct for promoting the one, and avoiding offence to the other, will be a work of great difficulty.