For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.
For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!
He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.
I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.
I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.
When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.
. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.
My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.
I'm never going to be a Tom Clancy. And I wouldn't really want to be - not that I have anything against him, and I wish him continued success - because that's not why I'm writing novels. I'm doing it because I have to. I feel like I have to, anyway.
I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune and sing it to the others they always say 'Yeah, it always sounds like such a thing' and when they point it out I see what they mean. But I did get a part credit as a composer on one - it was called What Goes On.
I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.
The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive question as "Is your wife having natural childbirth or is she planning to be knocked out?" But someone might ask that of you. No matter how much you wish for privacy, your pregnancy is a public event to which everyone feels invited.