Wish Quotes - Page 34

• I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."

  Allan Loeb

  Character, Thinking, Long

  "'Collateral Beauty' Film Writer: Will Smith Was Best Actor for Dramatic Leading Role". Interview with Jeannie Law, www.christianpost.com. December 23, 2016.

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• [NFL fans] wish they'd shut up and play football, and I think the vast majority of people, "Shut up and act! Shut up and sing! Shut up and star in your TV show! Just shut up and do what you do, but shut up!" I think they're wearing out their welcome.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Football, Stars, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I got back to my hometown, and everyone is like, "I wish I could retire at 39." So they put it in perspective.

  David Ross

  Perspective, Hometown, Retiring

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I really enjoyed working on the first one [Batman franchise] and I wish I could have worked with Chris Nolan again and I hope to work with him again.

  Katie Holmes

  Firsts, Enjoyed, Nolan

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The Bible is a book that has shaped my life, my beliefs, my ethics, my moral concerns, my religious outlook. This is not something, however, that I have taught or written about. This has been, if you wish, a private aspect.

  Hershel Shanks

  Religious, Book, Taught

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I made a career goals list for 2017 and it's so funny. I have low self-esteem or something, so I put both wishes and goals. The goals were things I'm going to do anyway, because I have no choice because my job is to do stand-up comedy so I have to tour and I have to write stuff. The wishes were all things that could be goals. As in, I bet people who have achieved these things called them goals at one point. But I haven't looked at that piece of paper since.

  Jen Kirkman

  Jobs, Self Esteem, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.

  Gaspar Noe

  War, Opposites, Bosnians

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• If someone disturbs you... they didn't kill you, but you really feel like "I wish this guy was dead"... you know that you will not kill him yourself, but if he gets struck by a truck or by a train, you would really be happy.

  Gaspar Noe

  Guy, Truck, Feels

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• You should really stop worrying, develop the real wish to live and with a good motivation, [such as] "I have a better life and I can put that life at the benefit of others."

  Matthieu Ricard

  Motivation, Real, Worry

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Thinking, Giving, Would Be

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• Abraham Lincoln is the guy who could never be elected today, but whom we desperately wish we could elect.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  Guy, Today, Abraham

  Source: horrornews.net

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• I wish I could go tell 12-year-old me like I don't worry that you just fainted in front of all the girls, one day you'll be able to make this into an episode of TV.

  John Mulaney

  Girl, Years, Worry

  Source: uproxx.com

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• [Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say, and I wish she'd write it down.

  Nat Hentoff

  Writing, Whole, Decided

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• [Søren ] Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, `You can't really think yourself into a faith, into a religion. It's something you have to make a leap into faith.' And I've never been able to do that. I wish I could. Then maybe I could believe in an afterlife.

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, Thinking, Afterlife

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.

  Nat Hentoff

  Honesty, Writing, Mean

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

  Roxane Gay

  Writing, Reality, Idealism

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wish I were better at straightforward description. I feel like I'm usually overdoing it or underdoing it, and it takes a lot of tweaking to get the details right.

  Lauren Grodstein

  Details, Description, Straightforward

  Source: www.salon.com

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• God suffers not the pain of repentance, nor is He deceived in any matter, so that He would wish to correct that wherein He has erred. But as when a man repents of anything, he wishes to change what he has done; thus where you hear that God repents, look for an actual change. God does it differently from you, although He calls it by the name of repentance; for thou dost it, because you had erred; while He does it, because He avenges, or frees.

  Saint Augustine

  Pain, Men, Names

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I wish my Google was faster.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Google, Faster

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Miley Cyrus] got a fantastic voice. I do think she's a fantastic artist and does great songs. I wish her all the best.

  Ed Sheeran

  Song, Artist, Thinking

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• I reached out to [Brett Favre] early on; sent him some of my books and a letter. Then I had two or three arranged times with him, and was blown off. Then I sent him another letter, and he sent me a text, explaining that he didn't wish to talk. I'm not mad - it's his right, obviously. Plus, his family members were amazingly open and cool.

  Jeff Pearlman

  Book, Two, Mad

  Source: lombardiave.com

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• I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

  Desmond Tutu

  Magic, Hey, Life Is

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I think that's what's - one of the things that is alarming to me is [Donald] Trump, and I think Trump supporters seem to believe, he won, huge upset, full credit to him, and has got the wind at his back. And Republicans on The Hill do want him to succeed, obviously, and they're deferring to him more than they deep down in private sort of wish - want to, but they are going to defer to him publicly for awhile. But I think that is going to run out faster than people think.

  William Kristol

  Running, Believe, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Epidemics, Aids Epidemic

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• Those who wish to change the world should have the best possible understanding of the world, including what is revealed by the sciences, some of which they might be able to use for their purposes. That's why workers education, including science and mathematics, has commonly been a concern of left intellectuals.

  Noam Chomsky

  Should Have, Understanding, Purpose

  Source: libcom.org

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