1500 Wish Quotes for You to Enjoy

It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat. Pico Iyer

All of us wish for a dignity that commands respect. But few have it. R. Madhavan

Respect Dignity Wish Few Commands Us

Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs. Raymond Burr

Life You People Try Wish Live Other Way Would Your

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time. Robert Redford

Time Me Better Wish Kid Had Better Time Good-Looking Nobody

We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought. Sebastian Thrun

Beautiful Me Problem School Problems Thought Wish Think Society Peers Recognized High Logically High School About Guts Rational Through Emotionally Like Look Makes Doing Go Them Engage Among Things

A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea. Tracy K. Smith

Me Experience Feeling Wish Poem Gives Idea Encounter Chance

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me. Tyra Banks

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. W. H. Auden

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong. Walter Bagehot

World Will Long Wish Judgment Earnest Punish Tells Wrong Always Opinions Unwise Them Even Believers Conscience

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation. Wynton Marsalis

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. Zora Neale Hurston

Man Wish Every Distance Ships Board

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness. Andrew Fastow

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride Wish Other Others Various Know Sort Makes Curiosity May Which Interest Us Ignorant Useful Desire

Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians. A. S. Byatt

Hate Car Wish Pedestrian Danger Would Cross Wing Mirrors Self-Righteous Were Snap Off Trying Front Realise Them Really Cyclists

There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb. Aaron Sorkin

Life You Wish Way Tell Trick Super Unpredictable Some Could Headed Combination Ya Coming Dumb Being Your Avoiding

We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live. Abdoulaye Wade

Wish Young Live Ensure Feel African Which Century

Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards. Abhishek Bachchan

I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world. Ada Lovelace

World Word Wish Own Sense Add Laws My Own Small Prophets Almighty Feel Towards Most Glory Were His Effective Noted Mankind Should Use Certainly Using Works Interpreting Peculiar

As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually. Adam DeVine

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