Why do born-again people so often make you wish they’d never been born the first time? – Katharine Whitehorn
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 I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles. – Jessica Alba
I’m a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn’t need to be discovered at all – she’s widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished – I wish she were a household name. – J. R. Moehringer
You’re playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they’d make me older. – Leila Josefowicz
Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians. – Mitt Romney
I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt – you know, a butt that’ll bring tears to your eyes? – Leslie Bibb
I wish when I was 17, somebody had told me not to care so much about what other people had thought. – Kathryn Hahn
My wife’s an Australian and a very competitive lady, and she wants to sail in Sydney-Hobart. I say, ‘We have the boat, do as you wish.’ I’ll let her run the show. – James H. Clark
As in, I think ‘Badlands’ is one of the funniest films of all time: ‘Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened’ is one of the funniest lines in any film. – Richard Ayoade
Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there. – Orson Welles
I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast. – Robert Rodriguez
Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch. – Rita Ora
I wish I had seen some women directing before – that would have given me the idea of who I was. – Patricia Riggen
Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you. – Robert McNamara
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. – Rollo May
I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don’t get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better. – Rupert Sanders
What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I’m not a criminal. – Randy Quaid
We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don’t wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom. – Rafael Correa