Top 100 Quotes About Wishing
#1. I really relate to the feeling of falling in love 10 times a day and wishing I could never stop falling in love.
Jill Soloway
#2. You have to have a plan. This isn't wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation - like, 'I hope one day ... ' - let's claim it now.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
#3. It is part of the human experience that we are constantly gripping a good fellow by the shoulders and wishing him well, taking comfort from the notion that we will hear word of him soon enough. But
Amor Towles
#4. You do that, and you'll be wishing for death before her body even hits the ground. The Gatekeeper is coming. Executioner for the Feral Breed, brother to the Beast, and mated to the woman you hold against her will. You've fucked up, friend.
Ellis Leigh
#5. Hypnotized
I am hypnotized
Sleepwalking to the rhythm of your words,
Never wishing to wake-
Michael Faudet
#6. My theory was that if you spent such a big portion of your life being a snob, you were not allowed to be surprised when people start wishing you dead.
Chrissy Moon
#7. My most educated analysis, with all means of science and technology in mind, is that it's magic," Alex said. "There's no other possible explanation!" -Alex Bailey, The Land of Stories; The Wishing Spell
Chris Colfer The Land Of Stories
#8. Your wishes doesn't come true, because there is someone else who is wishing harder and trying harder for the same wish.
Amit Kalantri
#9. Esprit de l'escalier: spirit of the staircase, wishing you'd said, wishing you'd done. Yet how much more indelible it was when the staircase was the staircase that led to the bedroom.
Martin Amis
#10. All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in this world Arises from wishing oneself to be happy.
Shantideva
#11. Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.
Jules Simon
#12. What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
Norman Vincent Peale
#13. Over the years, I've found myself wishing sometimes my angel would show up. I could use a little uplift, a little reminder.
Roma Downey
#14. Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just
well
being sad.
Linda Lael Miller
#15. Wishing to make an effective entrance, he flung it wide open, when a heavy jug of water fell right down on him, wetting him to the skin, and just missing his left shoulder by a couple of inches. At the same moment he heard stifled shrieks of laughter proceeding from the four-post bed.
Oscar Wilde
#16. I keep wishing, reflexively, for a glimpse of the future, so I'll know what to do. But I don't kid myself. I have to feel my way forward blindly. I try not to be afraid. Even if you know what's coming, you're never prepared for how it feels.
Natalie Standiford
#17. Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
Gautama Buddha
#18. What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.
Charles Frazier
#19. I dreamed of you, even before I knew you were real. In all my years of wishing, I wished for you. The moment I saw you, I felt it. My whole world shifted. My whole existence grew brighter.
Sarah Fine
#21. Stop wishing & start doing! Your lack of effort won't affect a true hustlers ambition. Perseverance through adversity is key.
Behdad Sami
#22. When you meet someone, you can silently send them a blessing, wishing them happiness, joy and laughter. This kind of silent giving is very powerful.
Deepak Chopra
#23. I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
Bear Grylls
#24. I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.
Paul Simon
#25. I raise a glass, to make a toast wishing everything good for you, so happy birthday for today and health and happiness too.
Susan Smith
#27. If somebody that I cared about was crying alone in a parking lot," he said, wishing he could tell her that she was somebody he cared about, "at this time of night, I'd want somebody to call me.
Rainbow Rowell
#28. Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.
Athanasius
#29. Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content. For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."
- from "Dimpellumpzki
Richelle E. Goodrich
#30. All the joy the world contains
Has come through wishing happiness for others.
All the misery the world contains
Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.
Shantideva
#31. There was no point in waiting for someone who hadn't asked, and there was no point in wishing for something that would never happen.
Jennifer E. Smith
#32. It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
John Dyer
#33. She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale.
Nora Roberts
#34. For the second time in my life I walk away from Tucker not wondering if I'll ever see him again or wishing that I won't but wishing that when I do see him again he finally feels the same way that I do.
R.S. Burnett
#35. Success is the number one wish for everyone wishing to prosper.
Auliq Ice
#36. It is best if you do not spend all your time wishing you were somewhere else.
Robin LaFevers
#37. No point in wishing for what you can't have. - Blair
What's the point in wishing for what you can and do? - Larken
Nora Roberts
#38. Angry Birds is a very simple idea but its one of those games that I immediately appreciated when I first started playing, before wishing that I had been the one to come up with the idea first.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#39. Then he put in a call for Nicole in Zurich, remembering so many things as he waited, and wishing he had always been as good as he had intended to be.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#40. If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.
Anonymous
#41. I couldn't get the words exactly right; I only remembered wishing that Jacob were my brother so that we could love each other without any confusion or pain.
Stephenie Meyer
#42. I'd spent endless nights wishing things had been different - wishing that ours had been a fairy-tale story. But, it wasn't. It couldn't be.
Stephanie Connelley Worlton
#43. Stop wishing for things you complain you have not, and start making the best of all that you've got.
Helen Steiner Rice
#44. Now it's not just my lip you'll be needing to kiss if you're wishing to make amends with me, Irish.
Karen Marie Moning
#45. I remember wishing the moment would hold forever; that we could be fixed there, laughing and irredescent... Then I got panicky because I knew it would pass; that it was passing already.
Tina Howe
#46. The wanting to be different in order to be perceived as better, yet wishing I didn't have to try so hard.
Andie Mitchell
#47. He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.
Stephen King
#48. ...wishing I could do everything in my life once as practice, and then go back and do it again.
Leslie Feinberg
#49. When you live a hard life, you spend years wishing for the easy stuff, but then when you get it, it never feels right. You get used to having to fight and claw for the things you want, and when you don't have to do that anymore, everything feels a little bit muted.
Cora Carmack
#50. It seems that wishing and hoping and dreaming and remembering can be eve more helpful than knowing what's going to happen.
Melissa Senate
#51. I can't go on like this. I'm not the guy who cheats on his girlfriend wishing all the time she was someone else."
Elation and fear washed over me in equal measure. "Cam, I ... "
"You want this. I know you do.
Samantha Young
#52. Wishing you all a very happy Mahahivrati.
God bless you all with lots and lots of happiness,
your wishes will be accomplished.
Om Namah Shivaya
R.D.Sharma
#53. fuck wishing. you're missing the ambition on your mission.
OutKast
#54. You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you are who you are - start there.
A.M. Homes
#55. When do you quit wishing for things to be different? Months? Years? Decades? You think that if a sufficient amount of time goes by, it should be enough to help you stop caring anymore. But it doesn't. Ever.
T. Torrest
#56. Colin was certain he would feel better once he had gotten some sleep. At one o-clock in the morning he was wishing he could close his eyes and die. By 3 oclock, he thought he had. Colin sprawled out on the bed, face down, with his arms spread wide. Oh yes, death would have been a treat.
Julie Garwood
#57. I know genes are a big deal, son, but they're not the be-all and end-all." Rob slowed to a halt at the lights, wishing the dickhead behind would back off. "If they were, you'd be in a seafood salad and I'd be in prison.
Karen Traviss
#58. What you wish for in life someone already has
what you already have, someone else needs
What you take for granted, someone else is wishing for
Steven Aitchison
#59. When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
John Galsworthy
#60. I reach for the book on my nightstand instead. Immersed in the story of a guy and a girl so entwined, so perfectly made for each other, their love transcends time. Wishing I could climb inside those pages and live there forever, preferring their story to mine.
Alyson Noel
#61. You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so ...
Michelle Moran
#62. Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not ... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
John Henry Newman
#63. I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.
Ross Macdonald
#64. The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
Thornton Wilder
#65. Of all the things I have been privileged to do and experience in life, the highest honor has been fatherhood. Wishing Fathers everywhere a wonderful day.
Roy Yamaguchi
#66. Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better
Iyanla Vanzant
#67. I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.
Jenny Slate
#68. Very rapidly now Freddie realised that what he had been wishing for was a partner to share the perils of this enterprise which he had so rashly undertaken. In fact, not so much to share them as to take them off his shoulders altogether.
P.G. Wodehouse
#69. Mrs Forrester said you could ruin a thing by wishing for something else. If you're having fun at the beach, like we are, but you spend all your time here wishing you could be here all the time, you're wasting the time you're here.
Diane Chamberlain
#70. Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.
Erin McKean
#71. I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#72. Through the feigned fury of divine emotion, the wife of the great one will be badly wronged. Judges, wishing to condemn such a doctrine, the victim will be sacrificed to the ignorant people.
Nostradamus
#74. I didn't say hope. I said faith. There's a difference... Hope is wishing for something. Faith is believing in something.
Kim Ablon Whitney
#75. Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.
Auberon Waugh
#76. Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.
Linda Ronstadt
#77. There is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.
Derren Brown
#78. Steve sighed, wishing for a cigarette. "The Buddha teaches respect for all life." "Oh." She considered this. "Are you a Buddhist?" "No. I'm an asshole. But I keep trying.
Scott Hawkins
#79. She settled for patting him vaguely on the back and wishing she was anywhere but there. Although he did smell good.
Stacia Kane
#80. I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting me, and while I do not know much about abbesses, I suspect they are not fond of waiting.
R.L. LaFevers
#81. It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory
Che Guevara
#82. I've been telling myself this was being alive. This here. This ... hiding. Wishing. Dreaming. Wanting. And all the while, what does anyone else see when they look at me?
Steven Erikson
#83. Wishing the world was predictable an controllable does not make it so, and it might make us disregard what is actually happening
Jean G. Boulton
#84. The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.
Mike Mullane
#85. Of a disposition at once unsociable and talkative, desiring to see no one, yet wishing to converse with some one, he got out of the difficulty by talking to himself.
Victor Hugo
#86. A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
Umberto Eco
#87. Dont look at someone and wish to be them because you dont know if someone else is looking at you and wishing to be you
Urtear
#88. It is a good life we lead, brother,' said Federico with uncharacteristic solemnity.
'The best,' Ezio agreed.'And may it never change.'
They both paused - neither wishing to break the perfection of the moment - but after a while Federico quietly spoke.'May it never change us either, fratellino.
Oliver Bowden
#89. When she smiled, the world smiled with her, and more than once, I found myself wishing I was the man she deserved to be with, the one she had come to Italy to find.
R.S. Grey
#90. If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
Lev Grossman
#91. I groan against her neck and nuzzle into her hair, wishing I could fucking inhale her scent like crack. Not a very romantic reference, but it's all I got.
C.M. Stunich
#92. If this was the rice that God was putting in my basket...there was no point wishing for soup.
Chinelo Okparanta
#93. I've only ever looked at Marissa and seen an elegant, statuesque, gorgeous woman. But this morning, I find myself wishing she was a cute, rumpled, fiery brunette instead.
Shit! That's not good!
M. Leighton
#94. I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business.
Cath Crowley
#95. I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.
Ice Cube
#96. I lay under Luke, pretty certain I was going to die and wishing I'd made a will. Now, my sisters and mother were going to get all Aunt Ella's money. I should have left it to Sissy and a cat shelter.
Kristen Ashley
#97. You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters.
That's not quite the same as wishing to be one
David Mitchell
#98. Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.
Je Tsongkhapa
#99. It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.
Suzanne Farrell
#100. Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.
Countee Cullen
