Sometimes You Wish Quotes

#1. Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.

D. A. Pennebaker

#2. Like they say, it takes all types to make the world. But sometimes you wish it didn't.

Gloria Naylor

#3. Life is about taking what you want and giving even more. Not because you think you should, because you want to. Love isn't easy because life isn't easy. You have to fight for the things you want. Sometimes you win and sometimes you wish you lost instead

Rachel Robinson

#4. And she said that sometimes you wish for something very hard, it can kind of come true inside your own head, and it can seem real.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

#5. Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are.

Omar Suleiman

#6. When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's offered us. I offer you mine...I'll be your friend, if you wish. The faithful kind.

- Elva

Paul Fleischman

#7. Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'

Kate Winslet

#8. Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.

Auliq Ice

#9. Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn't; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the blemish will be erased from the permanent record known as your soul.

Ted Michael

#10. Sometimes you have no right to be tired! You have to work till you reach the glory! Sometimes you must refuse to repose; you must reach the target that you wish to reach just like an arrow never stopping here and there!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.

Jonny Greenwood

#12. It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised.

Dan Groat

#13. Saving You
The darkness takes him over,
the sickness pulls him in;
his eyes - a blown out candle,
I wish to go with him.
Sometimes I see a flicker
a light that shone from them;
I hold him to me tightly,
before he's gone again.

Lang Leav

#14. He touched her face, gently, with the back of his hand. 'you disappear so completely into your head sometimes.' he said. 'i wish i could follow you.'
you do, she wanted to say, you live in my head all the time

Cassandra Clare

#15. You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.

Cassandra Clare

#16. I asked her why my father resisted the guards when they always won in the end. Why didn't he just save himself the pain and pay them what they wanted? She told me that sometimes, you can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it. That's why my father fought back.

Jessica Khoury

#17. Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't.

Theresa May

#18. I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you really are. I'm going home now.

Felix Baumgartner

#19. It's odd, I think, how the thing you love most in a person can also be the thing you sometimes wish you could change

Julie Eshbaugh

#20. Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Phillip C. McGraw

#21. Sometimes you'll laugh
Sometimes you'll cry
Life never tells us, the when's or why's
When you've got friends, to wish you well
You'll find your point when
You will exhale

Whitney Houston

#22. I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.

Thomas Gold

#23. Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

John Mayer

#24. And that is the choice everyone has. They can wish for what they want in their life or they can face the truth. But sometimes you cant have both.

Patti Callahan Henry

#25. You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

Frances O'Grady

#26. When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat.

Fulton J. Sheen

#27. I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.

Rupert Sanders

#28. I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Anthony Hope

#29. Sometimes something that you've been asking for
It's just something that you could not see before.
For it was something that made you belong,
And that was there the whole time all along.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#30. I wish I could pick you up sometimes, turn you upside down, shake all the bad things out of your head, and put you back up the
right way again.

Alexander Masters

#31. I love you. I love you so much that sometimes I feel as if it's never enough. I'll always want more of you. Every day I wish I had found you sooner so I could love you longer.

Kimberly Lauren

#32. Sometimes you get so tired of each day, you wish it was over. But it just goes on and on, like the silent prayers that forever go unanswered. - excerpt from: freefalling

Darlenne Susan Girard

#33. Maybe sometimes, when I see some kids, you know, with their families. It's making me cry. You know, maybe when I ask them, sometimes, like, 'How does it feel to have a dad?' And, you know, they tell me this great answers, and sometimes I wish my dad was here.

Charice Pempengco

#34. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead ... but you know what? It wouldn't change anything. All I can do now that they're dead is to go through the actions of living without really living, and hope it improves someday.

Rebecca McNutt

#35. That is a problem with memory: Sometimes you forget what you wish you hadn't; other times you can't forget something you'd prefer to be rid of.

Lois Metzger

#36. You don't really hate me ... do you?" he asked.
"Sometimes I wish that I did. It would make everything a whole hell of a lot easier."
"So what pisses you off more? What I did to make you wanna hate me? Or knowing that you can't?

Jamie McGuire

#37. I realize that you have to be careful sometimes what you wish for.

Dwyane Wade

#38. Arduous, adj.
Sometimes during sex, I wish there was a button on the small of your back that I could press and cause you to be done with it already.

David Levithan

#39. When you do what I do, there are a lot of institutions that give you awards. I've gotten maybe 20 medals. They're glorious, and there's a spirit behind them. But sometimes they give you this dreadful modern glass thing. I wish everyone could afford a loving cup.

Michael Graves

#40. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

Christopher Walken

#41. Sometimes, I wish you were on a diet. Not because you need it, but because I want to eat your food.

Asura

#42. I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth-that would get people very concerned about climate change.

Thomas Schelling

#43. I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.

Willem Dafoe

#44. I am so alone, all the time, even when I'm surrounded by people. Sometimes I get really tired of the walls, and I wish I had the strength to just go at them with a sledgehammer.

Karole Cozzo

#45. Sometimes I wish I could have religion their way. You know, no responsibilities in life but to cut down people who don't think the way you do.

Chris Crutcher

#46. Sometimes I wish I had some Captain America super-strength to get through tired days. Or some of Stark's patented 24-hour energy shots. (But those things will kill you.) Not sure why he needs them. The guy's got a generator stuck in his chest. Don't even get me started on Thor-

Nathan Edmondson

#47. You know that relative that drives you so crazy that you sometimes wish you could ship them somewhere very far away, like Saturn? But then, of course, you would never do this, because deep down, you really love them - and shipping costs to Saturn are just too expensive. Well,

Natalie Grigson

#48. I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

Wim Wenders

#49. Sometimes you just wish you could make a film and then have it on DVD so you can see your mom. But, no, I've never really had that moment. Not really. Not seriously.

Simon Pegg

#50. Sometimes your wish can become chaos ... be careful what you wish for!

Stephen Richards

#51. Sometimes the pain they wish to spare is their own because if you can be convinced to set aside your own dreams, they can remain comfortable with their decision to do the same.

J. Michael Straczynski

#52. You know, sometimes I wish they would do this for us when we come home alive.

Jim Sheeler

#53. Sometimes it's easier to talk to a stranger than someone you know. Why is that?"
"Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as they wish us to be

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#54. I wish wishing were enough, but it's not. Sometimes you need a thing.

David Arnold

#55. Sometimes, you get answers to questions you never thought to ask. And sometimes, the answers make you wish you hadn't asked the questions in the first place.

Zack Stentz

#56. Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking, when I hear the silly things that you say.

Elvis Costello

#57. sometimes I feel my tether is too short." "You will lose that tether soon enough, and then someday when you are in a heap of hurt and trouble, you are going to reach for it and wish your mama was on the other end.

Ronald Yates

#58. Sometimes I wish I could sneak a peek into that mind of yours and see what you're thinking. Especially when you smile at me like that. ~ Oliver Sand

Chris Kuhn

#59. Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#60. Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

John Mayer

#61. Life is resilient! Sometimes, your lips may just squander the bliss of your heart. At times, you may even wish that the sky was red. But deep down there lies a seed of goodwill that sprouts only when the sky is actually blue!

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#62. And sometimes," I whispered to him, "I wish it could be you inside me. That I could take you into me and keep you safe always." His hand, large and warm, lifted slowly from the bed and cupped the small round swell of my belly, sheltering and caressing. "You do, my own," he said. "You do.

Diana Gabaldon

#63. It is true that no one can save you, no one but yourself. And sometimes ... even you cannot save you, no matter how much you wish it was untrue. Sadly, some things are not meant to be saved.

Lindy Zart

#64. Sometimes I feel like just to get all my own work done would be great. You always feel like you're behind, and they're six other things that you wish you could get to but you can't.

Neil Burger

#65. Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him.
'This is your real life, Al,' he said, 'Don't start living in the future. That's like gulping down a piece of fudge cake and then asking yourself, 'Where'd it go?' You're missing the moment.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#66. Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.

Lana Del Rey

#67. Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

Mitch Albom

#68. Sometimes I wish we'd met when we were twenty-seven. Twenty-seven sounds like a good age to meet the person you're going to spend the rest of your life with. At twenty-seven, you are still young, but hopefully you are well on your way to being the you you want to be. But

Jenny Han

#69. Do you ever wish that sometimes the world would just stop spinning for a few hours to give you a chance to catch up?

Chloe Neill

#70. You move forward. You face up to your challenges. You don't retreat. You're young, and sometimes you'll wish you could. But don't.

Ellyn Bache

#71. I should love a dear little blind rat,' said Wendy, and added in a contemplative voice: 'I sometimes wish I were blind you know, so that I needn't see my tooth water after I've spat it.

Nancy Mitford

#72. Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?

Langston Hughes

#73. Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.

Robert Breault

#74. I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.

Julie Anne Peters

#75. Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don't have to go away.

Orson Scott Card

#76. I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

Mitch Hedberg

#77. I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

Graham Greene

#78. Sometimes, when I look back over my life," said Hannah sadly, "I do not think of all the people who harmed me, but quite often of all the kindnesses and wish I could go back and say 'thank you' properly." She

Marion Chesney

#79. Why is it that you don't love me?"
"Sometimes I wish I knew ... "
"Don't anybody tell him!!

Charles M. Schulz

#80. Sometimes I think, 'Oh, I wish I just had a nice job where you're getting a salary.' Just sometimes.

Temuera Morrison

#81. I know sometimes tragic or humiliating events propel you into a better life, I've experienced that for sure, but it still hurts. It still burns. I think sometimes it hurts more because you can't wish it had never happened. It improved your life in the long run.

Autumn De Wilde

#82. Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

Woodrow Wilson

#83. I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

Artie Lange

#84. Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.

Peter Ustinov

#85. I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?

Elton John

#86. 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

#87. Some things you just couldn't change, or transform, or wish away. Sometimes the path you were on only went one way. Sometimes, the truth wasn't what you wanted to hear.

S.C. Langgle

#88. Be careful of what you wish for because sometimes it just might come untrue.

Jonathan Dunne

#89. So how did you manage to lose Lunsdorf?"
"He got away from Sergeant Roberts in Harrods."
"I sometimes wish I could do that when shopping with my wife," said the cabinet secretary.

Jeffrey Archer

#90. Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life,

Taylor Swift

#91. You're so scared of things sometimes, and for no reason," Sloane said, her voice quieter. "And sometimes, I wish ... " She didn't finish the sentence, just let it hang in the car between us.
I wished it too - whatever it was that in that moment Sloane wanted me to be, that I was falling short of.

Morgan Matson

#92. Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it.

Lupe Fiasco

#93. You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes.

Jane Goodall

#94. I wish," Jared began, and stopped, breathing in. "Do you remember how you used to believe I wasn't real? Sometimes I wish that was true. If I was just a thought in the back of your mind, then I'd be with you, and I'd be better.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#95. Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

Bob Considine

#96. I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were ... You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it ...

Peter Doig

#97. You can hope and wish and pray that those things are legitimate conversions and that [Hillary Clinton] now is a different candidate, a person with a different philosophy. That's something that, you know, sometimes, yes, it's hard to believe.

Jonathan Tasini

#98. Only experience can lead you to what it is you want and sometimes, I wish I didn't have so much experience. Now I've got it, I sometimes yearn to have my naivety back again, just so that I didn't know the pain of trying to love someone who can't be loved.

Sarah Michelle Lynch

#99. I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

Dambisa Moyo

#100. I wish I could draw you how I see you. I'd draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I'd draw a boy who deserves to see the ocean.

Jasmine Warga