Top 100 Only Wish Quotes
#1. I spent your Wish on that doucheface," I said into his chest.
"Hazel Grace. No. I will grant you that you did spend my one and only Wish, but you did not spend it on him. You spent it on us.
John Green
#2. I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.
Winston Churchill
#4. A lot of things have changed and will change, I can only wish you the best as it happens.
Malice
Courtney Winnie
#5. I like ordinary. People only wish for adventure until they're stuck in the middle of one. Haven't you ever seen The Fellowship of the Ring?
Kendare Blake
#6. What a mess are we in now! We! I only wish it was we: it is horrible being all alone.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#7. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.
Tony Rothman
#8. I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.
Brenda Lee
#9. I don't have the time or the energy to hate," says Shara. "I only wish to understand. People are what they are.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#10. I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!
E. M. Forster
#11. They cursed us. Murderer they called us. They cursed us, and drove us away. And we wept, Precious, we wept to be so alone. And we only wish to catch fish so juicy sweet. And we forgot the taste of bread ... the sound of trees ... the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name. My Precious.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#12. The number is not important to me. I only wish I had killed more. Not for bragging rights, but because I believe the world is a better place without savages out there taking American lives.
Chris Kyle
#14. My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'
Joseph Murray
#15. You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.
Rick Bragg
#16. I only wish I'd known night would fall on our tomorrows.
Rachel Thompson
#17. I only wish he had not married," said Mr. Norell fretfully. "Magicians have no business marrying.
Susanna Clarke
#18. My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.
Hugh Howey
#19. I only wish we could stay for his grief - it should be Homeric.
William Goldman
#20. I only wish I had more of myself to give; somehow my heart does not seem big enough to hold what I feel for him.
Adriana Trigiani
#21. I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well. I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real. But that's not the way it feels.
Jim Croce
#22. I only wish I had more time for fund raising.
Nido Qubein
#23. I live like a cuckoo in a clock,
I'm not jealous of the forest birds.
They wind me up - and I cuckoo.
You know - such a fate
I could only wish
For someone I hate.
Anna Akhmatova
#24. Victory!? There is no victory in war! War takes everything and gives nothing! I only wish my words were as destructive as you would have me believe!
Lindsay Buroker
#25. You have two seconds to tell me what the fuck you did to her, or I start carving you up into tiny pieces. And it won't be quick and it won't be painless. I'll make you bleed and suffer, but you won't die. You'll only wish you had, Skylar spat.
Maya Banks
#27. You are the son other mothers may only wish for."
"How can that possibly be true," he said softly.
"How can it not."
-Rehv's mother and Rehv
J.R. Ward
#28. What does a title mean to me? I do not need a title. My name, which I achieved with my own strength, is my title. I only wish that posterity would sometime confirm the fact that I have striven to achieve my program decently and honestly..
Adolf Hitler
#29. Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.
Meshell Ndegeocello
#30. There was a fine thing about that trout. I only wish I could have made a death mask of him. Not of his body though, but of his energy. I don't know if anyone would have understood his body. I put it in my creel.
Richard Brautigan
#31. Although I believe in reincarnation, as many people do that live in the East, I do not remember my past lives clearly; I only wish I did.
Gerald Gardner
#32. I wonder if a fish's
One and only wish is
That other fish will never say,
This fish is sure delicious!
Brian Rock
#33. Change the world, I know I won't,
Enthralling as always I hope it remains,
A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.
But my only wish as I take this jaunt,
Is for my words on you to impress upon,
A smile, a tear or even an angry frown.
Anurag Anand
#34. ... wishing that I were one of those people who say all the right things at all the right times. But I'm not. Instead, I think of them hours later and only wish that I'd said them.
K. Bromberg
#35. I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.
Buck Leonard
#36. The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#37. The victims of Ankara peace rally sacrificed their lives for peace and their only wish was We Want Peace.
Widad Akreyi
#38. I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.
Erich Fromm
#39. I only wish my health issues to be open to the public in the hope that I can educate others.
Renee Sloan
#40. It's well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced.
Anne Bronte
#41. One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. And vinegar that makes them sour - and camomile that makes them bitter - and - and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know -
Lewis Carroll
#43. It's good to see you, little one." He (Uncle Eddie) scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you.
Ally Carter
#44. I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates
#45. I believe that if you are bringing a child into the world, you should be willing to accept them in any reality. Whether they are Black, White, Asian, have four fingers, are disabled, gay ... .that the only wish should be for a happy and healthy baby.
Dianna Agron
#46. The young demand joy like a right - the old only wish to be spared unbearable pain. Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
#47. In conclusion, you can see that there is a place for censors and we only wish that we could tell you where it is.
Pat Paulsen
#48. I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.
Hugh Mackay
#49. I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.
Lee Iacocca
#51. I was an aesthete rather than an athlete, and my only wish was to be an ecstatic wanderer.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#52. The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
Erica Jong
#53. We not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular
way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.
William Wordsworth
#54. I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it's like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel.
Claire-Louise Bennett
#55. My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill.
Drake
#57. We are all materialistic. There are different levels of materialism! Some aspire to a fancy car, others only wish to go to bed at night with a full stomach.
D.J. Jouett
#58. The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once ... I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii ...
Isoroku Yamamoto
#59. For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me.
Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.
Brandon Sanderson
#60. When it's my time, and the reaper calls my name, there will be no stink of fear on me, and my only wish will be to die with grace, covered in the blood of my enemies.
Cedric Nye
#61. Science fiction is something that could happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn't happen - though often you only wish that it could.
Arthur C. Clarke
#62. I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.
Curt Flood
#63. I see nobody on the road,' said Alice. 'I only wish I had such eyes,' the King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!
Lewis Carroll
#64. As for me, I only wish the former Christy Epping had been correct. I wish I had been emotionally blocked, after all. Because everything that followed - every terrible thing - flowed from those tears.
Stephen King
#65. I try to smile, but it's hollow. Of course, I want my father to be happy and have his lands and title secure; I only wish I didn't have to sell my soul to Russia to do it.
Sherry D. Ficklin
#66. I only wish I knew that you'd actually want to be with me when that time is over.
Kiera Cass
#67. They say that cigarettes will kill you, eventually. Fine. That's just fine. I only wish they'd do it faster.
Neil Gaiman
#68. A child might possibly change his country; a man can only wish that he might change it.
Michael Oakeshott
#69. I know, I know. But I can always kill him later. This way, at least we get to humiliate him first."
Finn eyed me. "Sometimes I think you're even more devious, twisted, and vicious than I am."
I grinned. "You only wish you could be as ruthless as me."
"Absolutely.
Jennifer Estep
#70. I always say that I only wish to have three sorts of people as my friends, those who are very rich, those who are very witty, and those who are very beautiful.
Christopher Isherwood
#71. I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
Alexander Pushkin
#72. A fathers only wish is for his children to be infinitely better off than him
Lou Silluzio
#73. I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.
George Washington
#74. It's the contradiction of life, if I were with them,I would only wish to be far away. Now that I am far away, all I do is wish for one more day surrounded by them
Laura Fitzgerald
#75. Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them."
I see nobody on the road." said Alice.
I only wish I had such eyes,"the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at such a distance too!
Lewis Carroll
#76. Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles ...
Edward Abbey
#77. When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more.
Christopher Hitchens
#78. I only wish to climb even higher during the rest of my career bc with the power of Team Grimmie, I won't stop.
Christina Grimmie
#79. It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event
Herbert Read
#81. There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.
Louis L'Amour
#82. I do not wish to be an artist. I only wish that art enables me to be.
Noah Purifoy
#83. Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw
Homer
#84. I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.
Teresa Of Avila
#85. - and even though sinners like me can only wish for heaven, my bastard ass has somehow managed to sneak through the door and step into this thing called paradise
Charleigh Rose
#86. I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#88. When Judgment Day comes, we will regret the waste of a single moment not used for the glory of Christ. We will, however, not regret one moment we spent diligently studying God's Word and hiding it in our heart. We will only wish we'd spent more time doing this.
Andrew M. Davis
#89. I do not understand men." That made him chuckle, deep in his chest. "Yes, ye do, Sassenach. Ye only wish ye didn't.
Diana Gabaldon
#90. When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.
Pol Pot
#91. My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.
Masiela Lusha
#92. What do I consider myself now? A man attempting to be good. In this endeavor I have no use for church and steeple. If another man does, I only wish he finds what he needs.
David Ebershoff
#93. What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette
#94. Oh! How like a woman," Davey said. "Sex, my dear Sadie, is not a sovereign cure for everything, you know. I only wish it were.
Nancy Mitford
#95. [ ... ] But this will not do. No, this
will never do. There are
continents and shores which
beseech our understanding.
Seldom have we been so slow.
Seldom have we been so far.
My only wish is to see
Far Arden again.
Jim Morrison
#96. I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.
Mickey Rooney
#97. Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
Benjamin Whichcote
#98. I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.
Gene Wolfe
#99. What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
Mario Puzo
#100. And if we only have a guardian who has this knowledge our State will be perfectly ordered? Of course, he replied; but I wish that you would tell me whether you conceive this supreme principle of the good to be knowledge or pleasure, or different from either? Aye,
Plato
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