Top 100 I Just Wish Quotes
#1. 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
#3. I just wish I could walk into my Senator's office and say, "Senator Dude, Um, we have a problem with these sicko scientists ... "
But then again, I don't think we have a Senator, do we? Is there a state where mutant freaks are represented? If so, let me know.
James Patterson
#4. Sometimes I wish I was in the movies ... Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody'd know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I'd just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man.
Alan Heathcock
#5. I just wish people would realise that anything is possible if you try. Dreams are made if people try.
Terry Fox
#6. All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.
Dov Davidoff
#7. He squeezes my hand. "I'm pretty sure I'm in love with you, cupcake," he says. "I just wish you could love me back.
Tammy Falkner
#8. I just wish," she said, "that this magnificent, stupendous God of yours could give a fuck.
Michel Faber
#9. I just wish he didn't have the power to get to me." "I know, but you're a human being Hunter, and you have feelings. What would be weak is if you didn't.
Melissa Brayden
#10. I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.
Junot Diaz
#11. I will not be standing for office. I'm nearing 70; there are younger people within our movement. I just wish to contribute intellectually to the historic process of taking Tunisia from the era of repression to one of democracy.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi
#12. Before, when I looked at her, she was just the girl who as experiencing this weird phenomenon with me. Now when I look at her, she's the girl I've apparently made love to for a while. The girl I apparently still love. I just wish I could remember what it's supposed to feel like.
Colleen Hoover
#13. While you let those scars affect what you do, you're allowing your punishment to continue. It's done. You need to move on. Shit, that was brilliant advice. I just wish I could follow it myself.
Barbara Elsborg
#14. I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.
Katharine Whitehorn
#15. I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!
Earl Monroe
#16. I don't think anything of Laura Frank. You heard me - Laura Frank. Not Lawrence. Laura ... It's not that I blame him, I just wish he'd go to a manly tactic and just fight me. Don't whine. When he whines, that's when I change his name of Lawrence Frank.
Shaquille O'Neal
#17. Elphaba: "I just wish ..."
Fiyero: "What?"
Elphaba: "I wish I could be beautiful ... for you."
Fiyero: "Elphaba ..."
Elphaba: "Don't tell me that I am. You don't need to lie to me."
Fiyero: "It's not lying! It's looking at things another way.
Stephen Schwartz
#18. I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.
Bill Jay
#19. I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.
John Mayer
#20. I want to make time stretchier. I would like much more rubbery days, and I just wish that you could lean on a week, and sort of push the walls out a bit, and suddenly about nineteen extra days would rush in to fill the vacuum.
Neil Gaiman
#21. I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.
Ben Nelson
#22. I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
Shia Labeouf
#23. I just wish I had something stronger than Pepsi in the car that night!" *
Ryan Sprague
#24. I just wish I got a quarter every time someone clicks on 'Little Women, Big Cars.' We had a 125-page script for this show. We used the creator's house to shoot. But it's expensive to do these shows. They're eventually not going to be able to get the quality of actors.
Julie Warner
#26. My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored.
Dora J. Arod
#27. I respect the hell out of her for how hard she's working to be okay. I just wish she'd let me show her how to let go, how to let herself hurt. I want to take her pain.
Jasinda Wilder
#28. It with an E. We had recitations this afternoon. I just wish you could have been there to hear me recite 'Mary, Queen of Scots.' I just put my whole soul into it. Ruby Gillis told me coming home that the way I said the line, 'Now for my
L.M. Montgomery
#29. I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.
Keke Palmer
#30. I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.
Stephen Chbosky
#31. Getting a gay fan base is slow. I think if I were able to reach more gay people they would love it. I can't get the songs in their ears. I love my gay family. I just wish I could reach more of them. I'm in this car going from club to club but they're not gay clubs.
Mary Gauthier
#32. Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring
Sarah Dessen
#33. I've loved this house from the moment I set eyes on it," Dad said quietly.
"I just wish it were a little bigger," I said. "I need at least five hundred bedrooms to keep from feeling cramped, you know?
Rachel Hawkins
#34. When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.
Vinny Testaverde
#35. I watch Jace Herondale play, and I see the ghosts that rise up in the music. Don't you?" "Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world." "Yes," she said. I just wish he were here to see this with us, just here with us one more time.
Cassandra Clare
#36. I like to know the truth. That's all. I just wish the truth was different.
Cinda Williams Chima
#37. And when I picture his mind, I hear my name as a shy crystal ping that occurs once, maybe twice, a day and quickly subsides. I just wish he thought about me as much as I do him.
Gillian Flynn
#38. I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.
Shekhar Kapur
#39. Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.
Norman Tebbit
#40. I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
Andy Rooney
#41. I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.
Ricky Schroder
#42. You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose ... but you can't pick your friends' noses.
Well, I didn't get to pick my parents.
I am glad that I have them, though.
I just wish that I wouldn't have to spend the rest of my life picking one of them and not the other. - Amber Brown
Paula Danziger
#43. I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?
Elton John
#44. By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!
C.S. Lewis
#45. Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.
Miranda Cosgrove
#46. I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?
Neville Marriner
#47. Some people like to push my buttons!!! I just wish they would give them back ...
Neil Leckman
#48. I just wish the people in this country would start wearing some brighter colors. It's so goddamn depressing here.
Annie Ward
#49. L.A. is cool. If I could have the rest of my family out there, I think it would make it that much better for me. As far as work and the weather, you can't really beat it. I just wish they had the New York social life out there. That would make it perfect.
Michael B. Jordan
#50. I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.
Courtney Love
#51. I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.
Joanne Woodward
#52. I mean, I don't want to pass judgment - I just wish my husband didn't shoot deer."
"Oh, Mel, don't worry. I've been hunting with your husband - the deer are completely safe.
Robyn Carr
#53. I don't mind snorkeling. I just wish the sharks would get out of the ocean and go sit on the sun loungers while I do it.
Peter James West
#54. I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.
Noel Gallagher
#55. That Grace looked annoyed at me.
"I didn't say you would go to jail, Junie B.," she said. "I just wish you would say the word correctly, that's all.
Barbara Park
#56. I just wish," he said, not looking at her but at the floor, "that I could say the right thing, do the right thing, to make this easier for you. Whatever you want from me, I want to do it. I want to be there for you in whatever the right way is for you, Clary.
Cassandra Clare
#57. What's wrong?" "Nothing. I just wish there was a way to bottle your laugh. I'd wear it on a chain around my neck. That way, I could listen to it anytime.
Tess Oliver
#58. I just wish she wouldn't make herself such an obvious target." "No one should have to worry about being a target. She's just a kid trying to graduate. It's the school's responsibility to keep her safe. It's the teachers' job to make sure we all get a fair shot here.
Rachel Spangler
#59. Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.
Frank Sinatra
#60. She has every reason to be mad. I just wish I could do something. She's no soldier like us. She's kind and gentle."
"Aye," Maven nodded in agreement. "Not all of us are built for it. What kind of world would it be if we were?
B.M. Tolbert
#61. I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
Yoko Ono
#62. I don't write because I want to write. I do it because I have to. I just wish it was my day job.
Stephanie Michel
#63. I'm a big fan of the game. Seeing these young guys play at the level that they are, I just wish I was 22, 23 years old so I can handle the game the way they do.
Jason Kidd
#64. I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.
Jeanette Winterson
#65. I just wish you could love me more than you hate him,
-Lo to Ryke
Krista Ritchie
#66. I don't blame him for being in love with her. I just wish, for her sake, she wasn't in love with him.
Tiffany Reisz
#67. I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.
Hasil Adkins
#68. When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably knows what he is talking about. I just wish he hadn't told me.
James Fenton
#69. It's so easy for 16-year-olds, including myself, to say, 'I just wish I were an adult.' But we can't wish our lives away. When we're adults, we'll say, 'I wish I were 16 again.'
Bindi Irwin
#70. I think back to my banter with Cash about sexual harassment. I don't doubt he pushes the boundaries, but never once did I get the impression he might force himself on me or make unwanted advances. I just hope to God he doesn't know that his advances aren't unwanted. I just wish they were.
M. Leighton
#71. I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.
Phil Collins
#72. God, I can't even begin to tell you ... I just wish that you could have felt it too. So that when you found your Jake Andrews, you would know. You would know what it felt like to stand in front of your forever.
Jay McLean
#73. Kylie looked up towards the sky. Sometimes I just wish Heaven wasn't so far away.
C.C. Hunter
#74. I don't have a word for this, because I've never felt this before. But I do love you. I just wish there was a way to explain to you that love is just the start of it, because it's turned into so much more for me.
R.K. Lilley
#75. I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.
Mike Nichols
#76. Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.
Hilary Duff
#77. [Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.
Louisa May Alcott
#78. I know you never met me, and I know you don't know my name, but I am from you, and I just wish you could see me. I wish you could see that someone knows who you were and what you did, and I won't let anybody forget you, not ever again.
Ryan Littrell
#79. There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, 'This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.' I just wish they'd say, 'It ain't the truth.'
Emilia Clarke
#80. I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would."
"Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.
Richelle Mead
#81. I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Anonymous
#82. I wish you guys would just say, 'Michael Sam, how's the football going? How's training going?' But it is what it is. And I just wish you guys would see me as Michael Sam the football player instead of Michael Sam the gay football player.
Michael Sam
#83. And I have this, for now. I just wish I could figure out how to keep my fucking mind from going all over the place - dwelling on all the loss and pain and everything I'VE DONE - then jumping off into the future to how impossible it all seems.
Nic Sheff
#84. I wish we were all hippies and did yoga, lived in cottages, smoked weed, accepted everyone for who they are, and listened to wonderful music. I wish money didn't make us who we are. I just wish we could redo society.
Bob Marley
#85. I ask, "You ever hear that a person has to go through fire to become who they're meant to be?"
Mendes sips her coffee, nods. "Sure."
"I've always wanted to be strong, Miss Mendes, I just wish there wasn't so much fire.
David Arnold
#86. A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.
Jennifer Lopez
#87. Life is a game I adore. I just wish someone had given me the rule book sooner.
Dane Waters
#88. Everything is what it is. I just wish it were something else.
Cath Crowley
#89. I was never in love with someone else
I never had somebody waiting on me
'Cause you were all of my dreams come true
And I just wish you knew
Taylor, I was so in love with you.
Owl City
#90. guess I just wish that I'd lived more in the present, with the person who loved me and was there, instead of living in the past with the ghost of someone I once loved but could never have.
Karpov Kinrade
#91. When I stop at a stop sign, I don't think about the distance I've crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.
Tablo
#92. The Statue of Liberty really is profound, I just wish she'd lighten up a bit.
Dov Davidoff
#93. Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year ... I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.
Martin Cruz Smith
#95. People have their purposes and reasons, I just wish I found mine.
Anthony Liccione
#96. I believe in equality for everyone. I believe everyone should have the right to love and commit to whomever they want. [ ... ] All I know is that in God's eyes we are all the same. I just wish we could see through the eyes of God more often.
LeAnn Rimes
#97. I know you might think it pointless, but I just wish I could fix it. It's bad enough to bungle things professionally and . . . well . . . romantically. It would be nice if I could at least get a friendship right.
William Ritter
#98. I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence.
Charlotte Eriksson
#99. To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.
Jack Nance
#100. I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.
Diane Keaton
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