Top 100 Quotes About Wished
#1. You can borrow my Blackbird, if you like,' said Ben. This was his new fountain pen, which troubled him. It was guaranteed not to leak but writers and schoolchildren knew better. Ben wished to be relieved of the responsibility of the Blackbird, without losing his own dignity.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#2. I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.
Gia Coppola
#3. The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not.
Neil Gaiman
#4. Quietly she wished he might one day again spend as much time holding and touching her like a little harp as he did his incredible books.
Ray Bradbury
#5. Even as she said it, she wished that she could take the Thirteen into the skies when the storm hit - to train them in that, too.
Sarah J. Maas
#6. [T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.
Christopher Hitchens
#7. I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
Mary Oliver
#8. His brown eyes filled with worry, and I wished, not for the first time, that my heart could love him in a different way. It would have been so easy. So nice.
Heather Demetrios
#9. Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.
Gerald Durrell
#10. Was it mad to at least try to live as one wished, or as clost to it as possible? This life is mine, seh would think sometimes. This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.
-Cora
Laura Moriarty
#11. Vain favour! coming, like most other favours long deferred and often wished for, too late!
Charlotte Bronte
#12. The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.
Ted Chiang
#13. You can survive alone, or you can *live* together. I know which option William would chose - has chosen," he said, shaking me as if he wished he could shake some sense into me. "You have to make your choice.
Nicole Williams
#14. In November I received a ransom note telling me exactly what to do if ever I wished to see my uncle Theobald alive again. I do not have an Uncle Theobald, but I wore a pink carnation in my buttonhole and ate nothing but salads for the entire month anyway. In
Neil Gaiman
#15. I know who you are. He stared into the darkness and wished those words away. Instead, they hung about him, unsaid and yet still ringing in his ears. She didn't think he was his father. He wanted her to know who he was. And he wanted to know her back.
Courtney Milan
#16. Sometimes, when you wished too hard for something, you paid a bitter price.
Kate Elliott
#17. I wanted to freeze this moment forever, the chimes, the slight splash of water, the chink of dogs' leashes, laughter from the pool, the skritch of my mother's dip-pen, the smell of the tree, the stillness. I wished I could shut it in a locket to wear around my neck. I
Janet Fitch
#18. He wished he could prop his fearful self up in a corner like a broom and walk away.
Nina George
#19. If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
#20. I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
Abraham Lincoln
#21. I just smiled and wished hard for the waitress to come back from Cancun or Mazatlan or wherever she was so I could order my martini.
Karen MacInerney
#22. She briefly wished she did have some sort of magic so she could shoot a bolt of lightning through his head.
Marissa Meyer
#23. It is your own fault, said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . .
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#24. I am A man, not a sponge! If god wished a sponge to think, A SPONGE WOULD THINK!
Robert E.Lee
#25. A lovely fatigue claimed him. He lay down on the grass and listened. He thought about how Kestrel had slept on the palace lawn and dreamed of him. When she had told him this, he'd wished that it had been real. He tried to imagine the dream, then found himself dreaming.
Marie Rutkoski
#26. And every breath I ever took, every tear I ever wept, every star I wished upon seemed nothing until now. Every prayer I ever said seemed strangely answered now. Could it be I'm in love? Could it be I'm in love?
Jann Arden
#27. I found him very intelligent on the topics we touched; and before I went home, I was encouraged so far as to volunteer another visit to-morrow. He evidently wished no repetition of my intrusion.
Emily Bronte
#28. I carried out my plan because I felt The Chief had some fear of those of my race, of those uncountable forebears whose culmination lies in me. I wished to prove to him that a yellow man could save his armies.
Jorge Luis Borges
#29. Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.
Paulo Coelho
#30. I wished Graves would look at me. But he just stood there, glaring out from under his hair. I'm sure he could have painted fuck-off on his forehead and it would have been more subtle.
Lili St. Crow
#31. August remembered Harvey's words, and when he said good-bye he silently let them go. Released them into their own lives. He wished for their father to stay out of trouble, even if it meant he'd never see the boys again. Because that's just what you do. You let go.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#32. I always wished I could move around and switch schools. It was hard to have these radical transformations. You'd think, 'I will be a totally different person tomorrow,' but it never worked.
Sarah Dessen
#33. Always when Will did something to protect Tessa, Jem thought it was for his sake, not for Will's. Always Will wished Jem could be entirely right. Each needle prick had it own name. Guilt. Shame. Love.
Cassandra Clare
#34. The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.
Charlotte Bronte
#35. Birch fallacy is the assumption that you can infer subjective intention from objective consequence: we lost China to the Communists, therefore the President of the United States and the Secretary of State wished China to go to the Communists.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#36. I had twelve years as a Tottenham player under Bill Nicholson and could not have wished to have played for a better manager. I can still hear his wise words in my head when I am out on the training ground as a manager myself.
Joe Kinnear
#37. Butch tightened his grip on his cell and wished there were an app that let you reach through a phone and bitch slap someone.
J.R. Ward
#38. The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#39. When I met with Peter Angell, the producer of the CD, we talked about my idea to do songs that I loved and songs that I wished I had recorded. Peter suggested that we pick some songs and see how they work with you and try to come up with arrangements and ideas about how you might want to do them.
Thelma Houston
#40. I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
Epicurus
#41. Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.
Hassan Nasrallah
#42. He could sit in the dust and dark of the carriage house and rot for the rest of his life. Clearly that's what he wished to do. It was not my place to get in the way of so profound a destiny.
Kristin Bailey
#43. Maybe once he wished I was his daughter, because it was plain that my news was hard for him to hear.
Ann Patchett
#45. Michel and Annette Muller's mother, snatched from her children at Beaune-la-Rolande, died at Auschwitz. And while it was the Nazis who wished her dead, it was the French who put her in harm's way.
Laurence Rees
#46. Brightlord Wistiow let men do as they wished. And so they ignored him. Roshone lets them know he finds them contemptible. And so they scramble to please him.
Brandon Sanderson
#47. It is almost as if the Greeks, at a time when they were about to disappear from history, wished to avenge themselves for their own incomprehension by imposing on a whole section of mankind the limitations of their own mental horizons.
Rene Guenon
#48. I love you," Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn't.
"That's what you all keep saying," I answered. "But it doesn't seem to get me any happier.
Charlaine Harris
#49. No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant.
Rita Rudner
#50. I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Samuel Johnson
#51. Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast.
Francesca Lia Block
#52. Robert rushed to the gravel-pit, found the Psammead, and presently wished for - But that, too, is another story.
E. Nesbit
#53. It seemed to Fire it was rarely enough one knew a person one wished to marry. How unjust then to meet that person, and be kept from it because one's bed was made of hay and not feathers.
Kristin Cashore
#54. She'd often wished to chip away a bit of his arrogance, but she couldn't bear the idea of seeing Kaz stripped of his pride.
Leigh Bardugo
#55. There have been plenty of occasions in my life when I've felt small and insignificant, when I've wished to be something I'm not, but when Logan holds me like this, kisses me like this - like the universe starts and ends with me - I don't want to be anyone but myself.
Siobhan Davis
#56. I mean, come on. If they really wished you were there, they'd have invited you in the first place, right? It's kind of mean, if you really think about it. It should say: 'Greece: Where nobody's all that upset you're not here.
Jennifer E. Smith
#57. On his day of demobilization a lugubrious one-armed, one-eyed brigadier wished him well and then added, apropos of nothing, Mark my words, Moutier, a great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
Lee Child
#58. But she could make the margrave fall in love with her if she wished. She could. She felt it in the way he looked at her and spoke to her. And what was just as bad was, she could fall in love with him too.
Melanie Dickerson
#60. Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible
Sarah Dessen
#61. Then Mr. Norrell roused himself and took down five or six books in a great hurry and opened them up - presumably searching out those passages which were full of advice for magicians who wished to awaken dead young ladies.
Susanna Clarke
#62. I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.
Benjamin Franklin
#63. As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished.
Kathleen Turner
#64. Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.
Deb Caletti
#65. After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
Kurt Student
#66. How must he prove himself? What was it they wished to know of him? And what did he know of himself here where loneliness was an unavoidable element of life, and a man must rely solely on himself?
Margaret Craven
#67. Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.
Jim Henson
#68. And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise." And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly.
Marco Polo
#69. I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.
Marilyn Monroe
#70. She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
Marguerite Duras
#71. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
Kazuo Ishiguro
#72. I've wished for things and never really had the chance ... It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then ... go.
Deb Caletti
#74. There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.
Timothy West
#75. [He] didn't like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.
David Nicholls
#76. [ ... ] I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties, wrest my tastes from their original bent, force myself to the adoption of pursuits for which I had no natural vocation.
Charlotte Bronte
#78. Tiny emerged on deck some hours later, shaken but smiling. He said that what he had been considering love had turned out to be simple flatulence. He said he wished all his romantic problems could be solved as easily.
John Steinbeck
#79. I would never say that GOD did not do anything I wished for he made it come true.
Nadair Desmar
#80. There was nothing I wished I'd said to him. There was nothing I wished I hadn't said.
C.J. Flood
#81. I wished I were somewhere with him, instead of there. I was feeling like some kind of strangely shaped balloon whose string he was holding, and if he let go, I'd float off into the ether.
Ava Dellaira
#82. My every dream and hope, and far beyond, were to be realized. I couldn't have wished for a man as incredibly good as this man was. And even so I didn't realize every quality of Bogie's on that day. He was to surprise and delight me continually in the ensuing years
Lauren Bacall
#83. He wondered whether he had done right. He was dissatisfied with himself and with all his circumstances. He asked himself dully whether whenever you got your way you wished afterwards that you hadn't
W. Somerset Maugham
#84. I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.
Lorde
#85. Regret has two sides.
the things we've done,
and the ones we wished we had.
Me
#86. He couldn't keep his eyes off her face, wished she'd take off those damned sunglasses so he could see the eyes he'd known so well.
Ken Grimwood
#87. You start seeing things that you're afraid of ... or things you've always wished for.
Eowyn Ivey
#88. It was that simple. God spoke to Carey about the needs of the lost in other lands. And Carey wished to respond. After all, was that not what the Bible told him to do?
Ross Paterson
#89. I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#90. If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so.
But the wind, which we do not see, troubles and bends it as it lists. We are worst bent and troubled by invisible hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#91. You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
Simon Cowell
#92. 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.
Don Yaeger
#93. I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it's not where you'll find your sense of completion.
Jim Carrey
#94. I'm a huge romantic comedy fan and have been in this business for 17 years and I think for all 17 I'd hoped and dreamed and wished to some day be in a romantic comedy myself.
Katherine Heigl
#95. If God had so wished, he could have made all Indians speak one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.
Rabindranath Tagore
#96. Something she knew she did not have the right to ask him about. But she wished - oh, how she
wished - that when he was ready to face his fears, she could be the one to help him.
Julia Quinn
#97. I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence ...
Marcel Proust
#98. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else read the book, and track them down to talk about it.
Susan Crandall
#99. Suddenly Elena wished that Stefan wasn't the type of boyfriend to give her space. She wished that he was here with her. Come to think of it, if they were all grieving for the same person, why shouldn't he be with her? Why had he run away instead of staying to support her?
L.J.Smith
#100. was freed to truly consider how I wished to live - specifically, how do I live free in this black body? It is a profound question because America understands itself as God's handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men. I
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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