Wish Quotes - page 8

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be. (E. Lockhart)

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

Elihu Root

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

Cornelia Funke

I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

Curtis Sittenfeld

If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.

Alfred Hermann Fried

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

LaToya Jackson

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

Sharon Olds

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

Annie Leibovitz

If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love. (Alphonsus Liguori)

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

Brenda Blethyn

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

Charley Pride

I do wish my breasts were bigger. Not big... but less small.

Calista Flockhart

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

Christine Baranski

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

Conrad Veidt

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Diane Wakoski

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

Dougray Scott

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

Goldwin Smith

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

Harold Ramis

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world. (Islom Karimov)

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

Peter T. King

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

Sara Paretsky

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.

Tommy Shaw

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

Groucho Marx

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