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Wish

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Danger Would

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

I Wish TV

Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.

- Aaron Lazar

Never Impose

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

- Abbie Hoffman

Which Century

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

- Abdoulaye Wade

Some Still

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

- Adam Pascal

Belonging Considered

Though music was not in my blood, I always considered myself belonging to music, and that remained with me throughout my studies. The studies were my parents' wish, which I fully complied with, as one must be educated at the highest possible level.

- Adnan Sami

Always Dad

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

- Aldous Huxley

Play I Wish

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

- Alec Baldwin

I Am Will

I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

- Alexander Pushkin

Everybody Lot

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

- Alexander Siddig

Preserve Frankness

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

- Alexander Smith

Current Designers

I wish I was more into clothes. I don't know the current designers.

- Alice Dellal

Actually Appear

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

- Alice Walker

I Wish Were

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

- Alison Bechdel

I Wish Aches

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn't have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.

- Allen Iverson

Along Would

Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.

- Allison Anders

Sin Idleness

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

- Ambrose Bierce

Person Talks

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

- Ambrose Bierce

Never Been

I've never been speed dating! I sort of wish I had, just for the experience of it.

- America Ferrera

Pay Price

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

- Andrew Jackson

I Wish Tell

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

- Andy Garcia

Game Play

I wish I could play the whole game and come back tomorrow.

- Angela Ruggiero

Voice Had

I wish when I was 15 that I realized my voice was important and that even my thoughts and my opinions had value. Had I known, I probably would've spoken up more. I probably would've found my activism sooner and become a writer sooner.

- Angie Thomas

Brilliant Chris Brown

Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.

- Anita Baker

Serenity Everybody

I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

- Ann Jillian

Poor Single

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

- Ann Landers

I Wish Perhaps

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.

- Anna Held

I Wish Thursday

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.

- April Winchell

Genius Richard

I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

- Artie Lange

Take Nor

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.

- Asa Gray

Assault Violent

You can have bans on assault weapons or whatever weapons you wish, and it's not going to protect from a violent person.

- Asa Hutchinson

Which Impossibilities

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

- Charles W. Chesnutt

Beginning Will

I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.

- Che Guevara

Mother I Wish

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

- Chely Wright

Stop Here

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

- Cheri Huber

Principal Lot

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

- Chi McBride

I Wish Gorgeous

I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.

- Chris Kattan

I Wish Face

I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that.

- Christie Brinkley

Some Were

Some people are way less creative than you wish they were.

- Christina Hendricks

Doing Nighttime

I'm doing everything in my power to be a great mother. I wish I could be with her throughout the day, because I'm always working, but I make sure that whether it's the morning or nighttime, I make it extra special.

- Christina Milian

I Wish Up

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.

- Christine Baranski

Total Total Freedom

We wish to work in total freedom.

- Christo

Certainly Aaron

I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.

- Christopher Buckley

Play Piano

I really wish I could play the piano really well without having to practice.

- Christopher Miller

Voice Embrace

We all wish we could find and embrace our voice, our strength.

- Ciara Renee

I Wish Visions

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

- Claude Debussy

Living Always

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

- Claude Monet

Better Nothing

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

- Claudius

Will Be Careful

Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.

- Colin Cunningham

I Wish Schools

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

- Cornelia Funke

Hateful Pitiable

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

- Cornelius Nepos

I Wish Compulsive

I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.

- Cynthia Voigt

Gods Call

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

- Cyril Connolly

Always Actually

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

- Dale Carnegie

Dancing Still

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

- Damian Woetzel

Be Careful Sci-Fi

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

- Damon Lindelof

I Wish Outgoing

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

- Dan Fogelberg

Worth Second

It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.

- Danny Elfman

Play I Wish

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

- Dave Navarro

Love I Wish

I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome.

- David Archuleta

Big Twice

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

- David Attenborough

I Wish Capital

I wish I had had more mentorship and more access, not only for capital, but the critical thinking.

- David Cohen

Dying Last

There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.

- David Hasselhoff

Process I Wish

It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't.

- David Milch

Always Stressed

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

- David Nail

Endeavor Appear

You appear to have a good project... we wish you well in this endeavor.

- David Packard

Life Out

Fantastic days are what you wish upon those who have so few sunrises left, those whose lungs are so lesion-spangled with new cancer that they should be embracing as much life as they can. Time's a-wasting, go out and have yourself a fantastic day! Fantastic days are for goners.

- David Rakoff

I Wish Sooner

I wish I'd heard about quickie divorce packs from Tesco's sooner.

- Davinia Taylor

Better Were

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

- Jim Rohn

I Wish Informed

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

- Joaquin Phoenix

Warrior I Wish

I wish I'd made 'Warrior,' and I wish I'd made 'Drive.'

- Joe Carnahan

Like Blondie

When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.

- Joey Ramone

Voice I Wish

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.

- John B. S. Haldane

Principle Industry

The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.

- John Bates Clark

I Wish Too Late

It is too late; now I wish I could live.

- John Buford

Music I Wish

I wish I had time to listen to music more.

- John Edgar Wideman

Skills Robert

I wish Rupert, Robert, and their hugely talented News Corp team continued and growing success in all they do, deploying News Corp's extraordinary skills and potential to the huge opportunities of a relentlessly more digital world.

- John Elkann

I Wish Other

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

- John Engler

Career Anyone

I don't wish my career on anyone.

- John Entwistle

Money Fortune

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

- John Fahey

Wisdom Let Us

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

- John Henry Newman

Music I Wish

I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can't dance.

- John Higgins

Grow I Wish

First of all, I wish I could grow a beard.

- John Hodgman

Hands I Wish

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.

- John James Audubon

Doing I Wish

Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.

- John Kasich

Important Given

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

- John Lubbock

More Six

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

- John McCarthy

Hope Reality

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

- Jonas Salk

Reality Show

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

- Jorge Ramos

Wise Would

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

- Joseph Hall

Future Mistrust

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

- Joseph Joubert

Live Men

All men can live together, if they wish to.

- Josephine Baker

I Wish Pat

I wish Pat Bowlen and the Broncos' organization nothing but the best in the future.

- Josh McDaniels

Be Careful Cap

Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for.

- Joshua A. Tucker

I Wish White

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

- Joss Stone

Symbol Concept

The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.

- Juan Antonio Samaranch

Society I Wish

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

- Judith Light

Wins Were

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

- Julian Casablancas

Hair Screwed

I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.

- Julie Harris

I Wish Frankly

Frankly, I wish they would do 'The Bachelorette' for old people. And I could be the bachelorette.

- Julie White