I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn’t. I really need to be more patient. – Ryan Reynolds
Reality isn’t the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. – Robert J. Ringer
I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form. – Shia LaBeouf
Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That’s a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But ‘Casablanca’ says it’s possible. You can have both. That’s what it means. And that’s my wish for you: that you would have both. – Robert McKee
I wish in my own mind I were more definite – that I was absolutely convinced I’d never direct someone else’s script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something. – Paul Mazursky
I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it. – Orison Swett Marden
We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete. – Ross MacDonald
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’ – Queen Rania of Jordan
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. – William Hazlitt
I write literary, not commercial, fiction – or so I’ve been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial. – Tawni O’Dell
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. – William Lyon Mackenzie King
I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don’t. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable. – Steven Soderbergh
I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other’s company and smell each other on the rump. – Tre Cool
I decide to go direct to Key West… I know the place quite well, and it’s near the points in Florida that I wish to visit. I have an idea at present of doing some work but do not know how long that will last. – Winslow Homer
I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible… and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary. – Victor Borge
If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there’s always the word of the Iraqis themselves. – Timothy Noah
I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank. – Zubin Mehta
There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don’t know if Samsung would stop us. – Steve Wozniak
One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted’s passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams. – Wade Boggs
I seek no longer to be a ‘famous’ person, and instead I wish to live a ‘normal’ life. – Sinead O’Connor
During my school days, I was doing a play, and my costume fell on the stage. I really wish it didn’t happen. – Virat Kohli
As to my followers, I wish no man to follow me who is not sound at the heart in the cause of his country; and either at the head or in the ranks of these, I will always consider it my glory to be found. – William Wallace
We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India. – Salman Khurshid
You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer. – Sol Wachtler