Top 100 Wish The Quotes
#1. I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.
Gene Wolfe
#2. 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
#3. I wish the world was filled with people like you, do you know that?
Cecelia Ahern
#4. Hence the reason I encourage you to believe what you wish. The heaven of teh Pastafarians is supposed to have beer volcanoes, which sounds like a fantastic idea to me. Imagine eruptions of a mellow chocolaty stout. There might be all-you-can-eat hot wings."~Atticus
Kevin Hearne
#5. What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.
Christina Romer
#6. I am sorry for only two things. These two things are I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life-time and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole damned human race. I wish the entire human race had one neck and I had my hands around it!
Carl Panzram
#7. I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer.
Garry Shandling
#8. New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
Rafael Yglesias
#9. It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you.
Alice Hoffman
#10. This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfere in everything, even in their daily quarrels with their wives.
Nikolai Gogol
#11. In very large measure each of us holds the key to the blessings of the Almighty upon us. If we wish the blessing, we must pay the price.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#12. It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.
Michael Musto
#13. That men of a certain type should behave as they do is inevitable. To wish it otherwise were to wish the fig-tree would not yield its juice. In any case, remember that in a very little while both you and he will be dead, and your very names will quickly be forgotten.
Marcus Aurelius
#14. Let the children play, let the children be children! And let us wish the same thing for the adults, let them also be children, especially when they turn into a boring creature!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. Thanks for everything."
"As you wish," the captain said. If axes could frown, I'm sure he would have.
"Stay sharp," Carter told him.
Rick Riordan
#17. You should give no indication that we wish the three-way division of Bosnia.
Franjo Tudjman
#18. Today, the world can appear fragmented and its people disconnected, mosaics allow me to fuse the pieces together to create something cohesive and beautiful , what I wish the world could be.
Laura Harris
#19. They wish the church could be more diverse, but then leave to meet in a coffee shop with other well-educated thirtysomethings who are into film festivals, NPR, and carbon offsets.
Kevin DeYoung
#20. You know how it's crazy embarrassing to watch a movie with your parents when a steamy love scene comes on? You basically wish the couch cushions would swallow you and suddenly the condition of your nail beds is far more interesting than what's on the screen?
Jen Malone
#21. There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)
Liz Curtis Higgs
#22. For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting.
Jacques De Molay
#23. Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.
Benjamin Franklin
#24. I want my legacy to be greater freedom, greater prosperity and a better way of life for my family, our employees and all Americans. And I wish the same for every nation on earth.
Charles Koch
#25. Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
Mortimer Adler
#26. I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me.
Matchbox 20
#27. My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
Holly Black
#28. I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.
Glenn Danzig
#29. Be good to others, if you wish the world to be good with you.
Rakesh Wadhwani
#30. I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
Norman Douglas
#31. Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.
Chris Cornell
#32. Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
C.S. Lewis
#33. We've gotten through a lot of tough times, and we're going to keep working to make them better. I wish the record was better.
Mike Quade
#34. I don't think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision.
George W. Bush
#35. I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
Shia Labeouf
#36. I wish the city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth.
Leila Janah
#37. All POOR wish to become RICH,
BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR.
Shaikh Mustafa
#39. What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.
Bobby Murcer
#40. I wish the rose was as beautiful as the woman who gives it as a gift ... but to say so would be to lie. But I will accept the lesser if it pleases the greater of the two ... and I say, THANK YOU
Tonny K. Brown
#41. I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
Stockwell Day
#42. Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#43. I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.
Franz Grillparzer
#44. I am the son of Hades. I go where I wish. The darkness is my birthright.
Rick Riordan
#45. I like to know the truth. That's all. I just wish the truth was different.
Cinda Williams Chima
#46. I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.
Thaddeus Stevens
#47. The world of light and starry grace;
within your mind I live to trace.
Your thought's speed in thunder's glory,
lightening my being with dream's story.
I embrace the tree carrying your name
Your unspoken wish : the heart of fame.
Munia Khan
#48. But right now, he couldn't help but wish the guy looked a little less like he belonged in underwear commercials and a little more like he belonged under a bridge.
Julie Ann Walker
#49. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary was 'Sky'.
Colleen Hoover
#50. Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing ... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry.
George Benson
#51. I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#52. The sun is getting warmer on my back, and I wish the air could stay the way it was moments before: the air of promise, the elements brewing but not quite cooked.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#54. Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.
Epictetus
#55. I wish I was your favorite girl, I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world, I wish I was your favorite smile, I wish the way I dressed was your favorite kind of style
Kate Nash
#56. I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
Barbara Lee
#58. How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it ...
Joey Barton
#59. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would be - would love to see an expose like that.
Michele Bachmann
#60. As for me, I only wish the former Christy Epping had been correct. I wish I had been emotionally blocked, after all. Because everything that followed - every terrible thing - flowed from those tears.
Stephen King
#61. The only life worth living was the unfree life ... the life in which you were chained to your one true wish, the wish to be simple and perfect.
Chad Harbach
#62. Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.
Joan Halifax
#63. I wish the dashboard indicators for lights were standardized throughout the auto industry.
Robert James Thomson
#64. Let the Vorin believe as they wish - the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.
Brandon Sanderson
#65. I just wish the people in this country would start wearing some brighter colors. It's so goddamn depressing here.
Annie Ward
#66. I wish the first word I ever said was the word quote, so right before I die I could say unquote.
Steven Wright
#67. I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs.
I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims,
Wish the poor didn't have to take welfare,
Wish America had universal health care ...
Cause ain't no help here.
Ed O.G.
#68. Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
G.K. Chesterton
#69. I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.
Patricia Arquette
#70. I don't mind snorkeling. I just wish the sharks would get out of the ocean and go sit on the sun loungers while I do it.
Peter James West
#71. I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.
Elizabeth Fry
#72. Christmas is such a trial,' said Mrs McCosh. 'I do most sincerely wish the Lord had been born at some other time.
Louis De Bernieres
#73. Some days, I wish the whole fucking world would just 'phone in sick.
Marshall McLuhan
#74. I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.
Amber Valletta
#75. A myopic focus on the proposed psychopathology of perpetrators, or on their alleged extraordinary personalities, tells us more about our own personal dreams of how we wish the world to work than it does about the reality of perpetrator behavior.
James Waller
#76. 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
#77. Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
Bobby Knight
#78. I wish the storm would make even more of a clatter, I wish the roofs would cave in, that spring would never come again, and that the house would blow down.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#79. I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away. The truth is in the present moment. The great paradox is that when I'm really able to do that, time slows down and opens up. Time feels suddenly and inexplicably without end.
Dani Shapiro
#80. I wish the camera could smell my armpits. Dude, mine smell good.
Ryan Ross
#81. Where do you put your attention? On fear or love? I wish the choice were made just once and not repeated every moment of the day.
Sophy Burnham
#82. The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.
Dagobert D. Runes
#83. I wish the world had been made in six days, and knocked to pieces again in six more. And I wish I had done it. The joke's good enough in a broad way, sun and moon and the image of God, and all that, but they keep it up so damnably long.
G.K. Chesterton
#84. Lews Therin hummed even harder, making Rand wish the man had a face so he could hit him.
Robert Jordan
#85. I wish the Lord would take me now
Livia
#86. I wish the press was fair. They're really dishonest. The media is really dishonest. It's incredible.
Donald Trump
#87. Nature awakens each day in brilliant autumn colors, making me wish the pale winter would bid adieu.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#88. I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#89. What's a farmer's market without some guy singing Here Comes The Sun in a way that makes you wish the sun would stop coming up.
Dana Gould
#90. Bid us sigh on from day to day,
And wish and wish the soul away,
Till youth and genial years are flown,
And all the life of life is gone
Samuel Beckett
#91. Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was back. Ideally, this spin-off would be an Ice Storm-esque exploration of the West Beverly gang's bleak adult lives.
Diablo Cody
#92. Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life. IX
Epictetus
#93. I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.
Kenny Marchant
#94. The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"
he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#95. Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.
Colleen Hoover
#96. Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#97. I wish the night would end, I wish the day'd begin, I wish it would rain or snow, or the wind would blow, or the grass would grow, I wish I had yesterday, I wish there were games to play ...
Virginia C. Andrews
#98. Thus far, you have indeed not been sluggish, but you must quicken your pace. Much toil remains; to confront it, you must yourself lavish all your waking hours, and all your efforts, if you wish the result to be accomplished.
Seneca.
#99. 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
#100. Never wish the death of anyone or you will lose your goodness inside you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
