Wish Me Quotes

#1. One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL because of the way we ACT. So an almost uncanny way to change your feelings is to act the way you WISH you felt.

Gretchen Rubin

#2. It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind of separates me from the common man in a way that I don't wish to be, so craftsperson makes me feel a bit more connected.

Matana Roberts

#3. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

George Eliot

#4. I wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

David Levithan

#5. Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.

Saint Patrick

#6. Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense gratefulness for those who love me, some strong wish to love them also. I am full of thanks for life. I have not told myself to be thankful. I am just so.

Alan Paton

#7. 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

#8. The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

Janet Fitch

#9. Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is one of the best chase-and-escape novels you'll read this year-or any other year. The pace never lets up.

Nelson DeMille

#10. A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something

Ambrose Bierce

#11. She wanted to say something daring like, "If you promise to kiss me again soon," but she only whispered, "As you wish.

Melanie Dickerson

#12. This was how she saw the world. It could take from her in a moment everything she loved. It could deny her anything she wanted. The world had granted me almost my every wish, and none more precious to me than this one. The world had granted her only this.

Catherine M. Wilson

#13. No lips," Drustan warned. "Unless you wish me to be kissing Chloe.

Karen Marie Moning

#14. He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.

Shannon A. Thompson

#15. Most of promoting seems unnatural to me, and I wish I didn't have to do it. I'm not especially good at tooting my own horn. However, I do love to connect with readers. That's why I try to keep up with my social media even when I don't have a new book coming out.

Linda Conrad

#16. Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

Lajos Kossuth

#17. There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!

Jim Rohn

#18. I have to rely on Laurie to know that I wish he had been with me the last time I was on the roof. I have to trust that he knows I'm glad that I stayed.

David Levithan

#19. You used to be the best to make life be real to me,
and I hope that you're still out there and you're like you used to be

Warren Zevon

#20. I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house.

Andy Ihnatko

#21. Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.

Luigi Pirandello

#22. There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.

David Hasselhoff

#23. Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me - I was the accident - so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I'm a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better.

Carrie Underwood

#24. The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.

Matt Groening

#25. I never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama [Bin Laden]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried to my grave, and since I wasn't the one who revealed it'it's definitely something that I wish was in the closet. It's destroyed my career.

Kola Boof

#26. Oh, how I wish that I could give him what Daddy takes so easily from me. But it would be a tainted gift. Sadness now, and I wonder how it feels to live without a constant fog of sorrow, a breeze of loneliness.

Ellen Hopkins

#27. Wondered to see, these luscious Flowers' 'Blossoming everywhere, like drops of Shower' 'WISH! My ecstasy would has that Power' 'Days come true! those for me, are so Far' ~Samar Sudha

Samar Sudha

#28. I wish there were a way for me to ask about a red ladle but it's not a normal question

Caroline Kepnes

#29. I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like he can't bear to take his hand away, I don't wish I was any different.

Veronica Roth

#30. I got you here, like I promised I would. I wish ... I wish I could've seen your Eden, but this place isn't for me. It never was. I have to find my own place in the world."
Bending down, I brushed my lips to his. "Goodbye, Ezekiel,

Julie Kagawa

#31. Sometimes I wish I was a cloud ... Just floating along, going wherever the breeze takes me.

Masashi Kishimoto

#32. The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

America Ferrera

#33. Nature awakens in brilliant colors of autumn, making me wish winter would bid adieu.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#34. I wish to understand in such a way that everything that is inexplicable shall present itself to me as being necessarily inexplicable, and not as being something I am under an arbitrary obligation to believe.

Leo Tolstoy

#35. I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Muhammad Ali

#36. If you do not tell me, I don't wish to know.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.

Natalie Maines

#38. Just once, I wish she would look back. I wish she would see me, waiting on the horizon for her. Waiting to take care of her. To comfort her. To be her man and her mate and whatever else she needs.

Ruby Dixon

#39. When I was young and miserable and pretty
And poor, I'd wish
What all girls wish: to have a husband,
A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish
Is womanish:
That the boy putting groceries in my car
See me.

Randall Jarrell

#40. My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.

David Morrell

#41. I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

Will Estes

#42. Am I supposed to want you this much?
Nadia. You are supposed to have me anytime, anywhere, any way you wish.

Eileen Wilks

#43. I always used to love singing. The first song I knew all the words to was 'Girl of My Best Friend' by Elvis. My dad introduced me to his music, and when I got given a karaoke machine by my granddad, my cousin and I recorded a load of Elvis tracks. I wish I still had them so I could have a listen.

One Direction

#44. Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.
I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.

Richard Siken

#45. I talk of you:
Why did you wish me milder? would you have me
False to my nature? Rather say I play
The man I am.

William Shakespeare

#46. I hate niggas! I hate em! I wish they'd let me join the Ku Klux Klan!

Chris Rock

#47. Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint.

Francis Bacon

#48. If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back
if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please. I want to meet you ... I is what I is, and I'm not changing.

Paula Deen

#49. Tell me there's a chance you could be wrong.
"If there were the slightest chance i could spare you from the pain, I would taken."
And its this-his sincerity-that finally snaps me in half. Because the truth is so unbearable I wish he'd spare me a lie.

Tahereh Mafi

#50. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people's lives too. Saving them from their "wild African ways." Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.

Angie Thomas

#51. I teach the way that I wish I was taught. The lectures are coming from me, an actual human being who is fascinated by the world around him.
- Salman Khan

Salman Khan

#52. I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

Peter Fonda

#53. I truly don't understand any of this,' I confessed.
She stayed standing, facing me.
'I wish I could help you there,' she told me. 'But I can't.

David Levithan

#54. Cause there was a time when all I did was wish
You'd tell me this was love.
It's not the way I hoped
Or how I planned
But somehow it's enough.

Vanessa L. Williams

#55. I try not to pass judgment on anyone, and I wish they wouldn't pass it on me.

Mary Beth Whitehead

#56. If you wish to please me, and to bring success and honour to yourself, do right and study, because others will help you if you help yourself.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#57. I begin to cry as my walls of my resolve break down. I don't know how long I can hold on. The pain is horrid and I curl into myself wrestling with a wish to die and a wish to live. Both have their perks. Only one will release me from this agony.

Celia Mcmahon

#58. 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

#59. As I have said, I am comparatively speaking calm, do not wish for anything, or expect anything, am resigned in fact to that kind of spiritual paralysis until the time comes when bodily paralysis carries me off, as it carried off my father.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#60. In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I'll reply: Eden burns.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#61. More than anything I wish he were here with me. "A relationship is an accumulation of shared history," he'd said to me once. And here I was making history without him. It's lonely. And I can't wait to go home. Parts of me are showing through my Aqua, and I'm having a hard time keeping them separate.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#62. How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.

Timothy Keller

#63. What is it?"
"A prayer."
"For a child?"
She nodded.
"For me?"
Another nod.
"On a tree?"
"Trees spend all day looking up at God.

Mitch Albom

#64. Carry me like change in your pocket and spend me as you wish.

Richard Ronald Allan

#65. These things were happening in my life where I was like, 'Man, I wish my pops was here to see this.' I never had those thoughts before fame, when my life was just a regular life. I wasn't saying, 'I wish my dad could be around and see me working at Applebee's.'

Kid Cudi

#66. You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.'
'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

Jane Austen

#67. I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true.

Andy Rooney

#68. When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.

Emma Forrest

#69. My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me.

Dave Navarro

#70. You're such a natural at this, Bella; I forget how very strange this all must be for you. I wish I could hear it." He ducked down and yanked me up into his arms so fast that I didn't see it coming- which was really something.
"Hey!"
"Thresholds are part of my job description," he reminded me.

Stephenie Meyer

#71. You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.

Galileo Galilei

#72. Why do you feel comfortable saying this to me? You wish the light would turn red or a police siren would go off so you could slam on the brakes, slam into the car ahead of you, fly forward so quickly both your faces would suddenly be exposed to the wind.

Claudia Rankine

#73. I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.

Dorothy Osborne

#74. The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect.

E.B. White

#75. I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.

Ira Glass

#76. With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

Thomas Jefferson

#77. Heaven forbid!
That would be the greatest misfortune of all!
To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!
Do not wish me such an evil.

Jane Austen

#78. Imagining the gods could hear him, Mycaela murmured to the well, "I wish I could find a man who'd take me away forever." He laughed softly. "But there are no stories about princes who wish for princes.

Ash Gray

#79. Nestor beckoned to me and I dismounted with care.I handed the reins to the boy with thanks. I do not wish to see that hard-charging bag of bones again, unless it is in my soup.

Tamora Pierce

#80. I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.

Mother Teresa

#81. You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

Celia Rees

#82. I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.

Mahatma Gandhi

#83. My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#84. I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

Agnes Obel

#85. Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.

Pierre Corneille

#86. I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style. I wanted to wake up with them all transferred to me.

Hanif Kureishi

#87. Creostus's booming laugh leaves gooseflesh upon my arms. He paces close to me. "Jealous, Priestess? Do you wish to compete for my affections? I should like to see that." "I'm sure you would. But you will die first and so let us journey to Philon, if you please.

Libba Bray

#88. Jase props himself up on an elbow, looking at me for a minute without saying anything. His face gets an unreadable expression, and I wish I could take back walking over.
Then he observes, "I'm guessing that's a uniform."
Crap. I'd forgotten I was still wearing it.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#89. Nevertheless this was life. I could wish that life was fair and that things were different, but this is what it was and I was determined to make the best of it. I needed to move forward, and fight the battles put in front of me and cherish the friendships that surrounded me.

Rachel Higginson

#90. 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

#91. I wish writing were really like the way Andy staged it here: Me in a mania at a desk while a group of people stand around cheering in awe. More realistically, it's me pooping around on Twitter until I get an idea.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#92. Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

H.P. Lovecraft

#93. My dear October, we are bound by an enchanted rose made from the hair of a Duchess, and my blood is covering your hand. You can learn anything you wish to know about me merely by licking you fingers." Tybalt laughed a little. "Yes, you may ask me a question.

Seanan McGuire

#94. I do not wish to work in a world that regards me as a slave.

Ayn Rand

#95. So many people know me.
I wish I did.
I wish someone would tell me about me.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#96. I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.

Eddie Murray

#97. Converge all thoughts on Breath. Breathe in and breathe out and wish 'Let not Death claim me.' You will vanquish Death.

Sanjay Bahadur

#98. I'm going to take care of you now. I'm going to fill you so deep that you're going to wish you could touch me, but you can't." Yes. "You're going to come each time I slip in." Yes. "You're going to ask me to stop to catch your breath." Yes. "I won't.

Krista Ritchie

#99. I'll come to save you as much as you want. I'll make you fall for me as much as you wish.

Usui Takumi

#100. It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

Abu Abbas