Wish
verb
To want something to happen or to be true.
I wish it would stop raining.
Often appears as...
- wish for something
- wish to do something
noun
A desire or hope for something to happen.
My wish is to retire early.
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- make a wish
- have a wish
verb
To ask (someone) to send your regards to someone else.
Please wish her my best.
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- wish someone well
- wish someone luck
verb
To strongly want to avoid something.
I wouldn't wish such an experience on my worst enemy.
Often appears as...
- wouldn't wish something on someone
- wish away something
verb
To want something to happen or to be true.
I wish it would stop raining.
Often appears as...
- wish for something
- wish to do something
noun
A desire or hope for something to happen.
My wish is to retire early.
Often appears as...
- make a wish
- have a wish
verb
To ask (someone) to send your regards to someone else.
Please wish her my best.
Often appears as...
- wish someone well
- wish someone luck
verb
To strongly want to avoid something.
I wouldn't wish such an experience on my worst enemy.
Often appears as...
- wouldn't wish something on someone
- wish away something
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Expresses a strong desire, often one that is not likely to happen.
I wish I could fly.
Pro Tip 2/3Expressing Regret
Used for expressing regret about a situation or action in the past.
I wish I hadn't said that.
Pro Tip 3/3Hypothetical Situations
Often used to talk about hypothetical situations that are not true or are hard to achieve.
I wish I were a millionaire.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Expresses a strong desire, often one that is not likely to happen.
I wish I could fly.
Pro Tip 2/3Expressing Regret
Used for expressing regret about a situation or action in the past.
I wish I hadn't said that.
Pro Tip 3/3Hypothetical Situations
Often used to talk about hypothetical situations that are not true or are hard to achieve.
I wish I were a millionaire.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Expresses a strong desire, often one that is not likely to happen.
I wish I could fly.
Pro Tip 2/3Expressing Regret
Used for expressing regret about a situation or action in the past.
I wish I hadn't said that.
Pro Tip 3/3Hypothetical Situations
Often used to talk about hypothetical situations that are not true or are hard to achieve.
I wish I were a millionaire.
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Seven Superpowered...
they can also dive pretty deep too down to about a thousand meters and i wish so badly that i could do the same thing and these gentle giants can migrate huge distances in search of food as well anything to feed those gigantic bodies now i would love to know which whale shark friend i'm waving to if i happen upon one on a dive
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Baby Orphan Fox Rescue PIPE...
chase up four or five maybe six young foxes who are going to give you the run around they really really will they'll go up the fence they'll jump around but it's good it's reassuring like i said you they need to be fast they need to be agile to survive in the world to be successful and i always wish i could explain to
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Why is Vermeer's "Girl...
Wishing to be represented in the paintings they financed, these merchants preferred middle class subjects depicted in spaces that looked like their own homes surrounded by familiar objects. The maps that appear in Vermeer's paintings, for example, were considered fashionable and worldly
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Want to be an activist?...
And this discouraged my brother a lot. He thought that he wasn't supposed to want to be a chef. because that was something girls did. Girls cooked, boys didn't. Or so, the message that Hasbro was sending. And this got me thinking, "God, I wish there was a way I could change this,
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Exponential Growth: How...
If you could fold the paper over and over, as many times as you wish, say 30 times, what would you imagine the thickness of the paper would be then? Before you move on, I encourage you to actually think about a possible answer to this question.
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Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...
They can't solve all of the world's problems, but I think they have something important to teach us. I invite all of you to think about the innovations that you're interested in, the machines that you wish for.
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Gary Haugen: The hidden...
But I just wish that I, and the rest of the world, had been moved earlier. And not just to tears, but to actually stop the genocide. Now by contrast, I've also been involved
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How One Community Saved...
We're the sentinels, watching over, and taking care of it. And I tell the "I wish part of what I am telling you now remains deeply etched into your minds and hearts,
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How to deal with...
you're stupid idiot and I wish you had never been born when I confronted her about having said this to me I was told I was making it up and that it was a lie
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5 Amazing Animal...
volunteer set up a crash giving all the child support and Lada could wish for
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Seven Superpowered...
they can also dive pretty deep too down to about a thousand meters and i wish so badly that i could do the same thing and these gentle giants can migrate huge distances in search of food as well anything to feed those gigantic bodies now i would love to know which whale shark friend i'm waving to if i happen upon one on a dive
Video examples
Baby Orphan Fox Rescue PIPE...
chase up four or five maybe six young foxes who are going to give you the run around they really really will they'll go up the fence they'll jump around but it's good it's reassuring like i said you they need to be fast they need to be agile to survive in the world to be successful and i always wish i could explain to
Video examples
Why is Vermeer's "Girl...
Wishing to be represented in the paintings they financed, these merchants preferred middle class subjects depicted in spaces that looked like their own homes surrounded by familiar objects. The maps that appear in Vermeer's paintings, for example, were considered fashionable and worldly
Video examples
Want to be an activist?...
And this discouraged my brother a lot. He thought that he wasn't supposed to want to be a chef. because that was something girls did. Girls cooked, boys didn't. Or so, the message that Hasbro was sending. And this got me thinking, "God, I wish there was a way I could change this,
Video examples
Exponential Growth: How...
If you could fold the paper over and over, as many times as you wish, say 30 times, what would you imagine the thickness of the paper would be then? Before you move on, I encourage you to actually think about a possible answer to this question.
Video examples
Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...
They can't solve all of the world's problems, but I think they have something important to teach us. I invite all of you to think about the innovations that you're interested in, the machines that you wish for.
Video examples
Gary Haugen: The hidden...
But I just wish that I, and the rest of the world, had been moved earlier. And not just to tears, but to actually stop the genocide. Now by contrast, I've also been involved
Video examples
How One Community Saved...
We're the sentinels, watching over, and taking care of it. And I tell the "I wish part of what I am telling you now remains deeply etched into your minds and hearts,
Video examples
How to deal with...
you're stupid idiot and I wish you had never been born when I confronted her about having said this to me I was told I was making it up and that it was a lie
Video examples
5 Amazing Animal...
volunteer set up a crash giving all the child support and Lada could wish for
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Future
American Musician
My three wishes are just be respected out the game. I want respect from everybody. And just make a successful clothing line and company. I'm not going to put a number on it. Just to have a great career.
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Dolly Parton
American Singer
As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!
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Jim Brown
American Athlete
I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.
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Clint Eastwood
American Actor
Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
English Novelist
I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
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Muhammad Ali
American Boxer
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
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Heraclitus
Greek Philosopher
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
French Statesman
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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Future
American Musician
My three wishes are just be respected out the game. I want respect from everybody. And just make a successful clothing line and company. I'm not going to put a number on it. Just to have a great career.
Quote examples
Dolly Parton
American Singer
As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!
Quote examples
Jim Brown
American Athlete
I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.
Quote examples
Clint Eastwood
American Actor
Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.
Quote examples
J. R. R. Tolkien
English Novelist
I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
Quote examples
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Quote examples
Muhammad Ali
American Boxer
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
Quote examples
Heraclitus
Greek Philosopher
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Quote examples
Napoleon Bonaparte
French Statesman
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Quote examples
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Example 1 of 10
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