wish Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about wish.
“I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.”
- Daniel Day-Lewis
“I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.”
- George McGovern
“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.”
- Walter Savage Landor
“I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.”
- Molly Ringwald
“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”
- Tony Robbins
“Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.”
- Novalis
“Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.”
- Henri Frederic Amiel
“Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.”
- Louise J. Kaplan
“Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
- Thomas Jefferson