Wish Quotes - page 6

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. (Calvin Coolidge)
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich. View quote
Muhammad Ali
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. View quote
Yogi Berra
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men. View quote
Florence Nightingale
I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity. View quote
Chris Rock
I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish. View quote
Michael Jordan
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. View quote
Michael Jordan
We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become. View quote
Carl Jung
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet. View quote
Rosa Parks
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. (Jack Kevorkian)
Things we do not hope for often come to pass than things we wish. View quote
Plautus
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish they would only take me as I am. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. View quote
Brian Tracy
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. View quote
Jim Rohn
Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true! View quote
Dave Barry
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong. View quote
William Shakespeare
Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot. View quote
Sophocles
If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. View quote
Leslie Stephen