Quotes of Wished - somelinesforyou

“ I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well. ”

- Jennifer Aniston

“ Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth. ”

- Stephen Baldwin

“ The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated. ”

- David Douglas

“ In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. ”

- Judy Garland

“ When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do. ”

- Bob Gibson

“ I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement. ”

- Astrid Lindgren

“ It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier. ”

- Ian Mckellen

“ People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. ”

- Edward R. Murrow

“ As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted. ”

- Baron Manfred von Richthofen

“ When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. ”

- Edith Hamilton

“ The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. ”

- Seneca

“ A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark. ”

- Boris Becker

“ I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away. ”

- Ursula Andress

“ I won Wimbledon because I wanted to be like her in Australia. I just want to be like her. But if she loses, then I'm like, 'Oh, man, now I have to do it. ”

- Venus Williams

“ I had never been around horses at all. That's why I wanted to do it. ”

- Dakota Fanning

“ I had hoped God would be neutral. ”

- Darrell Royal

“ I wanted above all else not to be like my mum. ”

- Julie Walters

“ It's not the way it was when I was growing up. Things have changed. ”

- George Washington

“ He talked on forever; and you wished him to talk on forever. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying. ”

- Christian Furchtegott Gellert

“ In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. ”

- W.H. Auden

“ No wise man ever wished to be younger. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. ”

- Robert Burns

“ To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty… But I am too busy thinking about myself. ”

- Edith Sitwell

“ If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance, a church filled with flowers and friends. I asked him what kind of wedding he wished for; he said one that would make me his wife. ”

- Unknown

“ I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. ”

- Epicurus

“ I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself. ”

- Dame Edith Sitwell

“ If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. ”

- Frederick The Great
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