Wishing Quotes

I just love the feeling from the fans and when I’m walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.

I do think human beings cannot be faulted for wishing to judge themselves and their lives and their achievements by others around them; that is a natural human feeling.

I feel that women – without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero – indeed have a need for their own publications and organizations. Our problems, our experiences as women are profoundly unique as compared to the other half of the human race.

The first stage play I ever did was a school play called ‘The Wishing Chair.’

I don’t think any of us ever trusted Nashville. When you’re in that town you know everybody is talking about everybody else. Everybody is wishing for the other guy to fail.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

In dream consciousness… we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

I never want to overstay my welcome for any character. I would rather people are excited by the ideas a character generates in them rather than feeling bored and wishing he would just go away.

I really relate to the feeling of falling in love 10 times a day and wishing I could never stop falling in love.

The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

Sir Alex Ferguson sent me a letter wishing me good luck before my fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. He also sent me a United shirt, signed by all of the players. It was a really nice touch and typical of the man who has always made himself available to managers in this country whenever they’ve needed advice.

No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.

I remember sitting by my window, wishing upon the stars that my skin condition would go away. I wondered, ‘Why me?’

For those of us who aren’t great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you’re an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you’re doing everyone a favor.

I like to have my hair grow, because I need to have hair for different roles. But I’m a woman, so I’m always cutting my hair off and wishing that I hadn’t.

I can’t remember a time when I stepped into an airport or train station without wishing I were somewhere else, doing almost anything else. Just thinking about traveling gives me the willies. Traveling and dyslexia don’t really get along.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

If I had rolled along with the strip’s popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now ‘grieving’ for ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ would be wishing me dead.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I’m not, and there’s no use wishing.

Without wishing to sound arrogant, when I was younger, I used to win every single martial arts tournament I ever entered. I used to enter the under 14s and under 16s, win both gold medals in those, and then go in the men’s tournament just for experience, and end up getting a silver medal.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who’s sorry for a gnat or girl?

I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it’s happening it feels like a roller coaster you can’t get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

The way I’ve always seen it is, I don’t want him to do bad. I want him to do good. But when I’m competing with somebody, I want my best to be better than his. That’s just how I’ve been. I’m not wishing bad for anybody.

Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

My life has changed. I’m not walking around any more wishing I wasn’t me, which was the case at one time.

In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn’t stand me. There’s some seriously disturbed people out there.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

That’s the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it’ll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

I love working with children because, as an only child, I grew up always wishing for siblings.

It doesn’t matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

I’m very comfortable in my skin. Everyone has insecurities – I joke around about wishing I had more cheeks – but I’m happy with who I am. You have to make do with what you have. If you carry yourself right, you can make anything look good.

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

Everyone seems to be rushing through their lives, wishing they had just two minutes to do all the things they want to get gone.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

I’m always wishing for more intrigue and meaty stuff to do as an actor.

When the Eagles started, I was the best-known one in the band. I remember when Poco would play the Troubador, Glenn and Don would be in front of the stage, drooling and wishing they were in the band. But they’d never admit that now.

I don’t remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them.

I remember watching somebody called Esmee Denters doing covers that were really popular and wishing that was me. But I’m glad it wasn’t. Things have worked out OK.

I left Starbucks in 2015. When I was younger, I remember looking at Justin Bieber and wishing I had all these fans, but you know what? Everyone has their path, everyone’s path is different, and this is where mine’s going. I just didn’t want to work at Starbucks. I wanted to be writing music all the time.

Cinderella was dreaming of a different life. That’s what I was doing, watching soaps, wishing I could be one of those glamorous girls on TV. I auditioned, and I ended up booking the role. It changed my life.

Before I moved to the city I spent every Saturday sitting in church wishing I could be living on my own, doing what I wanted.

Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

Yeah, I’ve done Jim Breuer’s radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got ‘Mike & Molly,’ wishing me congratulations. I’m always the last one to the party, man. But that’s okay. I got there.

I don’t take anything for granted. I know there are a million and one dudes who are rapping, wishing they were in my shoes.

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

It is hard to watch myself. I’m hypercritical, and it’s difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it – wishing I’d done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.

I wrote the song ‘I LOVE U, U LOVE ME’ wishing to have the most fantastic show ever.

If something is going to happen, whether you want it to happen or not, it is going to happen. And you are much better off cannibalizing yourself, or being ahead of whatever direction the world is headed than you are howling at the wind or wishing it away or trying to put up blockers.

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

Angelina is my daughter and I am always wishing her the best.

I’ve made two finals, and I’m up against guys who have won over 30 grand slams between them. But it’s been great for the sport. You have to figure it out. Wishing for something else is futile.

There’s nothing I would do differently, no wishing I had done this or done that.

But wishing our Kansas soldiers ‘God speed’ is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face.

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

Without wishing to sound pretentious, my basic standard of happiness is to do with being who I am.

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

When you’re a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.

But we all have experiences of having a truly good time after watching a movie that is not thought-provoking, don’t we? I do too and I’ve been wishing to do that kind of movie. I think ‘Collectors’ is exactly that.

I saw him… at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.

Through the feigned fury of divine emotion, the wife of the great one will be badly wronged. Judges, wishing to condemn such a doctrine, the victim will be sacrificed to the ignorant people.

I don’t think you should ever say, ‘This is the last time’. Music isn’t like that. You’ll be sitting there not wishing to get onto a stage again for maybe two, three, four, five months, or maybe a year, then suddenly you’ll wake up and feel like you’ve got to do it again. It’s in the blood, and I never say never.

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves.

You have to have a plan. This isn’t wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation – like, ‘I hope one day …’ – let’s claim it now.

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

If you’re 50, you’re never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it’s going to be over, and you’re going to be 51.

When I look on my mantelpiece and see these cards wishing me a happy 100th birthday, I can’t believe it.

I find it much more compelling to make a four-biter that leaves you wishing that you had a fifth. I think ‘the tyranny of the entree’ is the right way to put it. I don’t want to build this giant plate of food.

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don’t grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn’t work, everyone will know.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.

Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.

I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.

I’ve attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it’s their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it’s like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them.

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

I think you’ve got to play the hand that you’re dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

It’s never gone so far as me wishing I’d never done ‘Quadrophenia,’ but there was a time when I wouldn’t talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.

I understand being alone. I understand not liking it, wishing for something else.

I remember I was, like, 6 years old when I found out that I was having a little brother, and I was wishing and wishing for a sister. When my mom came out and my dad, and they’re like, ‘It’s a boy,’ Spencer, my twin brother, is cheering and jumping up and down, and then I burst into tears. I was so sad. I was crying.

One area where the state can be more effective in addressing the doctor shortage is to focus on making sure that Arizona is a friendly environment for doctors and those wishing to practice medicine.

Wishing of all employments is the worst.