We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we’re not. Because too often we’ve sounded like people who wish they hadn’t come here at all. – Francis Maude
I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats. – Nick Clegg
I don’t hate anyone. Sometimes I wish I could interact with the community in a more normal way, though. – Christopher Poole
I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things. – Nellie McKay
It’s an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive. – Pico Iyer
I wish I could understand why so many people have a nearly manic desire to excuse, defend, explain or condone evil. – Mike Gallagher
Sometimes I say to myself, ‘Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award’, although I’m not that bothered. – David Sedaris
I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don’t get the part, it actually doesn’t have to do with me on a personal level. – Eliza Coupe
Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I’d play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that’s not the system. – Dan Marino
My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because… the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors – that’s where they come from. – Michael Moritz
I think my parents recognised that I’d always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn’t think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part. – Chang-Rae Lee
I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I’m above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I’m just not very good at them. – Christopher Lloyd
My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I’d gone back and paid more attention. – Eliza Doolittle
‘Rome’ was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons ’cause I would have loved to continue watching it. – George R. R. Martin
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. – Mario Puzo
I used to send Tony Romo texts throughout the season just to encourage him, just to wish him luck and just to tell him to get on his offensive line. I hated watching this young man get sacked as much as he did, especially when it came down to big games. – Emmitt Smith
I came out when I was 17 – coming out in middle or high school is one of the most difficult things that anyone could experience. I wouldn’t wish it on my enemies. – Mary Lambert
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
In terms of characters I wish I had created – just because I haven’t dealt with anything like them – I’m really impressed by characters who can endure over time, whether that be a long series run like a Harry Bosch, or a character who endures over generations and continues to please readers: Sherlock Holmes. – Michael Koryta
There’s an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don’t know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling. – Fred Durst