Wish
To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.
To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward.
To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate.
To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.
Desire; eager desire; longing.
Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation.
A thing desired; an object of desire.
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Wish Quotations
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
Muhammad Ali
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
Industry need not wish.
Benjamin Franklin
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson
Wish Translations
wish in Afrikaans is verlang, wil
wish in Dutch is verkiezen, begeren, trek hebben in
wish in Finnish is tahtoa, haluta
wish in Italian is voto
wish in Latin is votum, desiderium, cupio, voluntas
wish in Portuguese is desejar, querer, desejo, anseio
wish in Spanish is deseo, voluntad, desear, tener
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