Best 4027 quotes in «wish quotes» category

I do not wish disaster to British arms.

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

I don't always have the time I wish I had to understand something I don't understand. So I'm trying to do a little bit less of the quick pieces and a little bit more of the "here's how the Singaporean health care system works" kind of stuff, because to be good at my job, I have to keep learning. The thing that I fear the most is becoming one of those journalists who is still trying to apply the thinking of the decade in which they started three or four decades later.

I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

I don't drink much anymore, because it's supposedly not good for me. I still have gallons of it around though. I smell the cork and do a lot of wishing.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

I don't feel any kind of a responsibility (other than to myself) to write "weighty" lyrics. In fact I sometimes wish I could learn to write in a simpler form, to be more direct and I'm going to be experimenting with this.

I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.

I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.

I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'

I don't know... I've been doing it for 17 years now, so of course I've seen pictures and thought, "Oh my god, I wish I would've never worn that." Yeah, but I did! And it was probably because it was my favorite thing at the time - my clothes always have some kind of emotion attached to them.

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I was very conventional because I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!

I don't plan [my recordings], I really don't. It's so spontaneous I wish all rock lovers and rock journalist could witness a Ted Nugent recording session. It is so primal, it's like idiot kids in the garage with their first loud amplifiers, its intoxicating, it is irreverent, it is uninhibited.

I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.

I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.

I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

I don't really regret much. I know there are things that I've done that have been wrong, and wish I could do over again, but I feel it's all made me who I am today, and I'm very thankful for that.

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

I don't think there's ever a time where I step back and say I wish I was something different. I'm doing what I love to do.

I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.

I don't trust myself enough. When I write, I overwrite. Gingerbread. Too much gingerbread. Writing is probably the only hobby I have. But I wish I had another one. If I was just a little better at golf.

I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

I don't want to be expected to fall in passively someone else's plans for me. That's what I don't want. I don't want it assumed that I simply don't have any personal goals or wishes of my own. Or any basic competence of my own. That's what I don't want!

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?

…I don’t wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk.

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

I don't wish to not be a woman, but I'd certainly like to be a woman whose sense of purpose comes from within.

I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger.

I do wish I ruled the world, I think it'd be a better place.

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

I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.

I’d trade my soul for a wish.

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.

I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.

I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.