Top 100 How I Wish Quotes
#1. Undisturbed, my garden fills with summer growth - how I wish for one who would push the deep grass aside.
Ono No Komachi
#2. How I wish your bearing and conversation were such that, on seeing or hearing you, people would say: 'This man reads the life of Jesus Christ.
Josemaria Escriva
#3. Oh, how I wish that I could give him what Daddy takes so easily from me. But it would be a tainted gift. Sadness now, and I wonder how it feels to live without a constant fog of sorrow, a breeze of loneliness.
Ellen Hopkins
#4. I almost hit on every women that I like. It's not about being a flirt, it's about living the way how I wish to be.
Myself
#5. It's a great huge game of chess that's being played
all over the world
if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join
though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.
Lewis Carroll
#6. Good luck, little Wanderer, good luck. How I wish you didn't need it.
Stephenie Meyer
#7. At the end of the day the only thing that stays are your words. They linger while you disappear. Hanging in the air like they're on a clothesline, oh how I wish I could let them go.
Jasmine Sandozz
#8. I never got to tell you so many things. Like how I wish I
could command a room like you. It's so impressive. Or how your eyes sparkle when you make a joke.
It's really pretty.
Kiera Cass
#9. How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!
Emil Cioran
#10. Oh, the odious wench.How I wish I were rid of her. I have always loathed women, from clew to earring; hook, line and sinker; root and branch.I always said this would happen, you remember; I was against it from the start. Damn it for a flibbertigibbet, the hussy.
Patrick O'Brian
#11. All remember about my mother," Nibs told them, "is that she often said to my father, 'Oh, how I wish I had a cheque-book of my own!' I don't know what a cheque-book is, but I should just love to give my mother one.
J.M. Barrie
#12. How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human,
Frank Warren
#13. How I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast.
Herman Melville
#14. How I wish I was a child again, when time was still my friend.
Ian Gardner
#15. Later, Antonio said to me - and how I treasure this, how I wish he's say it to me every day! - 'The first time I saw you, I saw the sun in your face.
Tanya Mendonsa
#16. Instead of studying books so constantly, how I wish that our schools and colleges might learn to study men and things!
Booker T. Washington
#17. O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.
Thomas Hardy
#19. Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!
Jane Pierce
#20. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For,
Lewis Carroll
#21. She drew herself up to her full height - it was a little difficult on a donkey - and said primly, I have always found that in painful situations it is a sensible idea to take each hour as it comes and not to anticipate beyond. But oh how I wish I could have a bath!
Dorothy Gilman
#22. Then why can't I bully you into procreating? (Wulf)
See! I'm the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#23. Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.
Erskine Bowles
#24. Can you deep fry the bacon? Oh how I wish you would ...
Greg Behrendt
#25. Alice, 'it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very
Lewis Carroll
#26. Named Harris," Bill said. "Ever know him, Mike? He was in the war, too."
"Fortunate fellow," Mike said. "What times we had. How I wish those dear days were back.
Ernest Hemingway,
#28. How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.
Pope Francis
#29. How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God--that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking.
J. Vernon McGee
#30. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
Albert Einstein
#31. Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.
John Coleman
#32. How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it ...
Joey Barton
#33. Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
Edan Lepucki
#34. How I wish, how fervently I ache, to take my mother's hand, kiss her check,tell her I love her, and watch her smile. For me it was not, nor can ever be. But for you, reach out now. Reach out for your mother's hand-the hands of those you love. Say I love you.
Don't wait.
M.J. Burke Sr.
#35. It shocks me how I wish for ... what is lost and cannot come back.
Sue Monk Kidd
#36. How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
Dodie Smith
#37. How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not
necessary to safeguard us from discrimination
Barbra Streisand
#38. How I wish we could all see the cost of our choices as clearly as a price tag on items in a store. If I know how much something is going to cost me, I make much wiser choices. But we have an enemy who schemes against us to keep the cost of dumb decisions concealed until it's too late.
Lysa TerKeurst
#39. Oh, how I wish you wouldn't worry so. There's hope in every breath. But when fear infects the bones, I'm told, the heart is always next.
Pleasefindthis
#40. Said the man to the sun, "How I wish you could shine your light on every day of my life!"
Said the sun to the man, "But only with the rain and the night could you recognize my light."
---Domaccan poem, translated by Chevalle
Marie Lu
#41. 'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.
Caitlin Stasey
#42. Oh, how I wish I was a woman - his woman.
A.R. Von
#43. Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head ...
Dave Matthews
#44. How I wish I were by the sea again.
This slack season the men must be painting
the hulls of the boats or sleeping the noon away.
I would not sleep if I were they.
Simeon Dumdum Jr.
#45. Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!
W. H. Auden
#46. Oh, how I wish I were a trinity, so if I lost a part of me, I'd still have two of the same to live.
Emily Saliers
#47. The other day upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today; how I wish he'd go away!"
~Gabrielle O'Callaghan towards Adam Black
Karen Marie Moning
#48. Kiaran left a mark on me. It's not physical, not like Lonnrach's. It's as if when my memories were emptied, my mind filled with pieces of Kiaran, feelings that kept me sane in the mirrored room. He did it without realizing and I let him without realizing. God, how I wish I hadn't.
Elizabeth May
#49. You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.
Monte Irvin
#50. All I can think about is what she must be doing, and how I wish she were still here.
Pittacus Lore
#51. I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.
Vincent Van Gogh
#52. He couldn't, as a respectable master in an English public school, have taken us to a brothel. Yet how I wish he had! His introduction to sexual experience would, I feel sure, have been a masterpiece of tact; it might well have speeded up our development by a good five years.
Christopher Isherwood
#54. I would say courage first; then wisdom, which is a sense of knowledge and confidence; and also the wish and desire to uplift. The underlying notion is "How do I help?" That attitude really is a spiritual journey and a path.
Sakyong Mipham
#55. I wish there was a manual on how to come out and what a young gay person is supposed to do. Like,
Sara Farizan
#56. I just wish we could move faster.' He chin-pointed to Nico. 'I don't see how this kid is going to last one more jump. How many more will it take us to get home?
Rick Riordan
#57. I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories
Lou Reed
#58. I have every right. You were born to be mine. And you wish to deny me the right to say how I feel, to speak the truth?
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#59. I wish I could anticipate some of the stories and lies that will be told. It's going to be great to get everyone together so we can tell all of the families, all of the wives and children, just how good we were because they never got to see us play.
Larry Conley
#60. I was in shock. Funny how the world works. You don't get the something you really covet, but then the universe provides unexpected compensation. Here I thought you had to make a wish for it to come true.
Sarah Dessen
#61. It's not a damn death wish. I just know how much my pain is worth.
Devon Monk
#62. I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky.
Sherri L. Smith
#63. Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet, I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is maybe for the best.
David Nicholls
#64. Never doubt how beautiful you are, Callie. For your beauty has quite ruined me for all others. And, frankly, I rather wish I'd found you years ago.
Sarah MacLean
#65. I wish not to tell you how I feel,
I choose silence so that you leave,
Kiss me goodbye and set me free...
Sanhita Baruah
#66. We are all in the same cart, going to execution; how can I hate anyone or wish anyone harm?
Thomas More
#67. Sometimes," says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence.
Sally Brampton
#68. Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.
Sarah Kay
#69. How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money.
Irving Fisher
#70. I forewarn you, this will be a rather long talk. I am an old man. I do not know how much longer I will live, and so I want to say what I have to say, while I have the strength to say it ... Having been warned, some of you will wish to get comfortable. Pleasant dreams.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#71. I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around.
Andreas Katsulas
#72. I wish there were a way to show Trea how I could give her things she doesn't even know she needs. I could fill a spot she won't even admit is empty.
Hilary Thompson
#73. You can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ...
John Geddes
#74. I wish we could take the hill. Could flood right on over it and end the war, wipe them all away in one great motion. But we can't. No matter how much I wish ... or trust in God ...
Michael Shaara
#75. Honestly, I wish I'd known just how hard it is and how competitive the acting world is. I took my time; I went at my own pace. That's been helpful over the years, but also, I didn't quite realize how incredible everyone else was going to be: the level of competition and everyone's skill.
Max Von Essen
#76. What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.
J.M. Barrie
#77. Here is the story of how I died. I wish it were a glamorous story; sadly, there was little glamour in my death. The end for everyone is much the same, sad, lonely, and cold. Only, most people don't wake up again, I did. And I was hungry, so bloody hungry.
L.A. Kennedy
#78. If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have 'nothing' so that I can finally learn how to appreciate 'everything'.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#79. How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness.
Eugene O'Neill
#80. The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.
Audre Lorde
#81. I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you really are. I'm going home now.
Felix Baumgartner
#82. [ ... ] But the world doesn't care who wins. It'll go on spinning, no matter how many people are slaughtered tomorrow. No matter if you and I are slaughtered." After a moment, he added, "I almost wish it wouldn't, if we aren't allowed to go spinning with it.
Kristin Cashore
#83. I remember telling my friends I wish I had stayed in school and they didn't understand: "You've got all this money and everything you want." But it wasn't about the money. It was about how I felt right then.
Chris Bosh
#84. It's odd, I think, how the thing you love most in a person can also be the thing you sometimes wish you could change
Julie Eshbaugh
#85. Why haven't you asked me how I do my tricks?" Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. "Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.
Erin Morgenstern
#86. I ... understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.
Jodi Picoult
#87. If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.
John Marshall
#88. Jeb: I wish I could explain what I'd give just to see you smile again.
Max (thinking): How about your head on a stick?
James Patterson
#89. She looks at me like I'm saving her. I wish she knew how much she is saving me.
Corinne Michaels
#90. I remember telling the 'Tangled' crew about grimace moments: how when you watch a movie that you worked on and you think, 'Ah, I wish we could have done that scene better,' or, 'I wish that we'd had the time or the money to fix that particular story problem.'
Roy Conli
#91. Orien," Birle protested again.
"You can stay if you must." Orien's cheeks were hollow with hunger and he had little strength for anger. "But I wish you'd come. I don't know how long it would be before I could come back for you."
So she followed him, since he would return for her.
Cynthia Voigt
#92. If I could wish one thing for my children, it would be wisdom. If they have wisdom, then they'll know how to seek and find everything else in life that matters.
Donna Gentry Morton
#93. How do I wish to be remembered, if at all? I think perhaps just as a fairly desirable sort of character actor.
James Mason
#94. I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.
Isaac Marion
#95. I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.
Giorgio Vasari
#96. If you came here dressed like this in order not to let me notice how lovely you are," he said, "you miscalculated. You're lovely. I wish I could tell you what a relief it is to see a face that's intelligent though a woman's. But you don't want to hear it. That's not what you came here for.
Ayn Rand
#97. I wish I was ignorant, so I didn't know how ignorant I am
Margaret Atwood
#98. As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.
Daniel Craig
#99. I wish I knew how one is supposed to live. I wish somebody had taught me. Why do people we take for authorities when we are children let us down in this respect? Who is to tell us which is right? The cross, the crescent, the hammer and sickle, the smiling Buddha? do as you would be done by.
Tessa De Loo
#100. How evil it is to wish I was the one leaving and not the one being left.
Anonymous
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