Top 100 Quotes About Wish
#1. I got feelings I don't know the names for. There probly ain't any names. Probly nobody else ever had 'em. I tell you what, I wouldn't wish 'em on a snake.
Marilynne Robinson
#2. I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
Bono
#3. We wish for more in life rather than more of it.
Jean Ingelow
#4. The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.
Paul Allen
#5. I don't regret anything I've ever done. I only wish I could have done more.
Mickey Rooney
#6. At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
Aldous Huxley
#7. Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
Margaret Thatcher
#8. Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.
Lillian B. Rubin
#9. Darkness isn't bad. It's only darkness." Those fingers relaxed. "All it means is you don't see the world as they do. You see what's really there. They see what they wish was there.
Leah Raeder
#10. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan
#11. There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.
Cassandra Clare
#12. This is the deepest wish of my heart?"
"Sure," Magnus said.
"Your father, proud of you. You, the hero of the hour. Me, loving you. Everyone approving of you."
Alec looked over at Jace.
"Okay, what about the Jace thing?"
Magnus shrugged.
"I don't know. Thet part's just weird.
Cassandra Clare
#13. You don't get what you wish for; you get what you work for.
Daniel Milstein
#14. He began to wish to know more of her, and as a step towards conversing with her himself, attended to her conversation with others.
Jane Austen
#15. But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.
Karen Joy Fowler
#16. I know where I come from, where I am now and where the wish to go.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#17. Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.
Ruth Brown
#18. Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?"
"Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.
Gary D. Schmidt
#19. My wish for you is that your life will always be filled with an abundance of love, joy, and wonderful, amazing moments.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.
Huey Newton
#22. Ninjas don't wish upon a star, they throw them.
Jarius Raphel
#23. Why did I submit myself to the butchery of the trenches when I might have served in the echelons as a medical officer? Even the most rudimentary knowledge of Doctor Freud would suggest that I was pursuing a death wish
Trevanian
#24. The neck in front of her came up. The head swivelled 180 degrees and the horse looked at Kin with bright insectile eyes.
'YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND,' it said inside Kin's head.
'Hell!'
'THOSE ARE NOT MEANINGFUL CO-ORDINATES.
Terry Pratchett
#25. I want to see you again," I told him. "I want you to see me."
"Trust me, I do see you," he stressed. "You're all I fucking see, Addison. When I close my eyes, when I open them, when I'm teaching. You're. There. All. The. Fucking. Time." He rubbed his face. "Sometimes I wish I'd never seen you.
Ella Frank
#26. I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.
Marty Feldman
#27. I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
John James Audubon
#28. Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?
Grace Metalious
#29. I wish she knew that there are other options besides "complete and utter breakdown" and "plastic smile, everything's fine." There's a middle ground, waiting to be found.
Cat Clarke
#30. If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#31. If you wish to serve me, as you have bloodsworn yourself to do, you must do so with honor. And that does not include introducing yourself by name to people like my mother in order to terrify them into submission."
"Kem'falla - " Gaelen protested.
"Don't bother to deny it," she snapped.
C.L. Wilson
#32. Afflictive passion and the veil upon cognition - The cure for their obscurity is emptiness. How then shall they not meditate on this Who wish for swift attainment of omniscience?
Santideva
#33. I might wish our Windthorn men were less obsessed with war, but I have to admit it keeps them busy.
Kate Sherwood
#34. When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.
Kate Atkinson
#35. It may happen that he sends a letter in verse, a mag-ni-fi-cent one, but which afterward he might wish to bring back with the tears of his whole life, for the sense of beauty is violated.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#36. I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not advance either of us.
Henry David Thoreau
#37. I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.
Jami Attenberg
#38. Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#39. The power of the dark side is an illness no true Sith would wish to be cured of.
James Luceno
#40. Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
Patricia Marx
#41. I wish we could keep on forgetting to remember ourselves.
Julie Buxbaum
#43. People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.
Richard P. Feynman
#44. Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.
Bertrand Russell
#45. As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
J.M. Coetzee
#46. I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.
Marianne Faithfull
#47. There is no immigration policy in the US that is permitting what's happening. What's happening here is happening outside the law, that our leaders do not wish to enforce or acknowledge. And the same thing happened in the UK.
Rush Limbaugh
#48. I simply write what I want, wish, long to write ... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.
Tanith Lee
#49. You cannot have everyone else's happiness in mind as well when you go out seeking your own. It's not as if what you wish to of with your life is going to take away anything from theirs.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi
#50. What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it
only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#51. I'm currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so mind-blowingly spectacular that he has no other choice but to agree to do it! Wish me luck.
Haley Webb
#52. I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight
Rich Mullins
#53. When the doctors told us she was dying I held her hand and gave up. We both did. I know it wouldn't have made any difference in the end but I wish I had let her see how much I wanted to keep her. I should have raged, Maureen.
Rachel Joyce
#54. What does the pilgrim hope for at journey's end? Her beliefs confirmed? Revelation? Or does she secretly wish that the destination never quite materializes, that it keeps receding, ever shrouded in the distance, all the more to feed an inextinguishable devotion?
Chang-rae Lee
#55. You don't have in IN you to be like that, Hughie.
You had too nice an upbringing.
Your mom and dad were too good to you.
And I wish you could see that you're not less of a MAN, or some sort of inferior person, just because you can't be harsh and hard and cold.
Garth Ennis
#56. A chat
With the Grim Reaper
should be enough to scare
away any thought of relapse.
Wish it were that easy,
but not even days conversing
with death can disintegrate
the claws of addiction.
Ellen Hopkins
#57. As I assume my responsibilities as your representative, I wish to assure you of my loyalty and devotions, as well of my determination to serve you and the people of Canada to the utmost of my abilities.
Romeo LeBlanc
#58. I wish the world was filled with people like you, do you know that?
Cecelia Ahern
#59. IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created. If you don't write at all you won't know how "great" that simple book can be.
Shiree McCarver
#60. Make a wish with all your heart and chase every dream you have. Only you can reach your goals. No one else can achieve them for you
Demi Lovato
#61. Meant to be?' It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.
Zoey Dean
#62. I wish I was perfect as you think I am. I wish I were good. I'm not. I want to be good enough. For you,
Rachel Robinson
#63. I wish I could say I will take no pleasure in this, but if my husband has taught me anything, it's to be unapologetic.
Karina Halle
#64. Sometimes I think this job is going to kill me," Abby said. "Seeing what people have done, what people continue to do, to my Foxes. I wish I could protect you, but I'm always too late. All I can do is patch you up afterward and hope for the best. I'm sorry, Neil. We should have been there for you.
Nora Sakavic
#65. My Dear Julianne,
If you wish to know how I feel about you, just ask me.
Yours,
Gabriel
Sylvain Reynard
#67. Here I am, wasting away inside
a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is
stay in the story.
If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I'd ask her why on
earth she would ever trade a single second of the world
she's in for the one in which I'm stuck
Jodi Picoult
#68. If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung
#70. The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.
Diane Ackerman
#71. Needless to say, it was inconceivable that I would be welome in, let alone invited to, their home. It was as well, then, that I did not limit myself only to those places where people might wish me to be.
David Liss
#72. Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge.' But every time I start to get that edgy thing, I get kind of mean.
Tom Smothers
#73. If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#74. If a wish turns to hope, it's worth chasing. (Lucas Warbuck: Darkotika - Book 2)
Ariel Roma
#75. I wish I could go visit them and talk in my own language, the English I knew before I grew thorns on my tongue.
Barbara Kingsolver
#76. I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.
Chloe Sevigny
#78. We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.
James E. Faust
#79. I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.
Charles Perrault
#80. It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.
John Green
#81. I wish to reiterate solemnly China's continued firm support to Pakistan in its efforts to uphold independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.
Li Keqiang
#82. My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.
Robert Greene
#83. I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.
Brendan Fraser
#85. I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you ... I wish that weren't true, but it is.
Colin Hay
#86. The maesters may believe what they wish. Ask a woods witch if you would know the truth. The grey death sleeps, only to wake again. The child is not clean!
George R R Martin
#87. There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.
Mitch Albom
#88. I wish to make it clear that 'history' in the sense in which most people speak of it simply does not exist; and this is at least one reason why I say that it has no meaning.
Karl R. Popper
#89. Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#90. Everyone tells me that I have a very sweet face! I'd like to change that. I wish I had a more flexible face!
Soundarya
#92. I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said.
"Why?"
"Because you're really someone worth falling in love with. And if we were in love, I wouldn't be drifting. I wouldn't be nobody. At least not while I was with you.
Anne Rampling
#93. All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate
and I wish I could find one.
Shulamith Firestone
#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. It is mostly when we are very young that we take the greatest delight in the sad songs; those who have felt the real bitterness of sorrow are glad to bury it deeply away, and do not wish it wakened, as sailors' wives love a place best where they cannot hear the sound of the sea.
Angela Brazil
#97. A goal without a plan is a wish. What's your plan? It's on you, because you have to do all the work.
Herman Edwards
#98. Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy.
Rebecca Makkai
#99. I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.
Delroy Lindo
#100. Hell is nothing but a place we wish God has created for our enemies, we ourselves think that he will ultimately show some kind of clemency towards us
Bangambiki Habyarimana
