Top 100 Wish You Were Quotes
#1. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive
Orson Scott Card
#3. With a small sigh he squeezed my hand tighter. "I wish you were like me.
Amber L. Johnson
#4. Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things ... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.
P. J. O'Rourke
#5. You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent
Andrew Davidson
#6. To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
Kurt Cobain
#7. Uther: "I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you"
"If your priests are right," said Viviane calmly, "I am already thoroughly damned and you may save your breath.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#8. at this distance
you're a mirage, a glossy image
fixed in the posture
of the last time I saw you.
Turn you over, there's a place
for the address. Wish you were
here.
Margaret Atwood
#9. Because isn't that what the holidays are all about - letting your family make you wish you were an orphan?
Shelly Laurenston
#10. Bob grinned. 'Wear that white swimsuit you bought last week, OK?' he said. 'I want all the other guys to wish you were their girlfriend.'
Sara felt vaguely uncomfortable, but she ignored the sensation. Bob just wanted her to look her best, she figured. There was nothing wrong with that.
Francine Pascal
#11. 15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm - neither hot nor cold - I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
Philip Yancey
#12. Walt is dead. And, after a couple of hours at Epcot, you'll wish you were, too.
P. J. O'Rourke
#14. A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.
Steven Wright
#15. So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here ... in my arms.
Anne Rice
#16. My roommate is a 240-pound homicidal hermit. For dinner he's fixing me a dead fox he scraped off the highway near Ponchatoula, and after that we're taking a leaky tin boat out on a windy lake to spy on some semi-retarded fishermen. Don't you wish you were here?
Carl Hiaasen
#17. The truth of the matter is, these mundane tasks must be done. There is no getting around them. Almost everyone has to do a task on a daily basis that is less than fun. The key is to find pleasure in the task and to not wish you were doing something else while doing it.
Jennifer L. Scott
#18. Eve took the gun from Blake, the hand that had been shaking steadied. "Mouse, I wish you were still here. This place was better when you were part of it.
Debra Anastasia
#19. When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again
And I'll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won't forget you
Oh if my voice could reach back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear:
Oh darling I wish you were here.
Owl City
#20. Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.
Andrea Gibson
#21. You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free
but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.
Franz Grillparzer
#22. 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and 'Wish You Were Here' are standout tracks. 'Comfortably Numb' is another one. 'High Hopes' from 'The Division Bell' is one of my favorite all-time Pink Floyd tracks. 'The Great Gig in the Sky,' 'Echoes,' there's lot of them.
David Gilmour
#23. You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.
Charlie Jane Anders
#24. Hey guys! Wish you were here, except not really. We're having fun. Check it out-the pyramids! -Alec and Magnus
Cassandra Clare
#25. Emotions are destructive, Ms. Dillinger. One of two things will happen to you. You will either be hurt and wish you were dead, or you will end up dead."
Katie stopped in front of the next cooler and checked inside. "I'm human. What am I supposed to do? Just ... be?"
"Welcome to the world.
Mary Abshire
#26. When you get to heaven, you will wish you were in hell.
Marilyn Manson
#27. No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.
Jascha Heifetz
#28. I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud.
Lisa Kleypas
#29. Sometimes, I wish you were on a diet. Not because you need it, but because I want to eat your food.
Asura
#30. You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
Henry James
#31. Don't ever wish you were someone else, you were meant to be the way you are exactly.
Joey McIntyre
#32. He leaned his head in his hands, as if the burden he bore were too great for endurance. 'You are wise', he said, then raised his head and stared at her with unflinching hatred. 'I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you!
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#34. Wish you were here, we can get lost in the forest together and eat bamboo rice.
Winna Efendi
#35. After my fight with the kunoichi, I thought I'd never hear from Whitley again, but he seemed to get a kick out of sending me Wish You Were Here postcards from around the world.
Cole Gibsen
#36. He looks at me then, and suddenly I know that people are what you truly need to be afraid of. People with eyes that communicate. People who can hurt you so hard you'd wish you were never born.
Tarryn Fisher
#37. It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#38. The bulk of life is discovering who you are - and then reconciling that with who you wish you were.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#39. I wish you were safe at home, but I'm really glade you're here
Kiera Cass
#40. Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.
Jim Rohn
#41. It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Thornton Wilder
#42. Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.
Cassandra Clare
#43. Paradise is the heart of the people who speak well of you; who think fondly about you because of your exemplary life. Hell is is the heart of the people who curse you, who wish you were dead for your evil actions against them
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#44. God, do I hate my little fat tits. You ever pinch your little meat tits and wish you were dead? You ever just stand naked in the mirror. "You little fat-titted mediocre failure!" You ever do that for 3 hours on New Year's Eve.
Jim Norton
#45. When you find yourself in a very hard situation, a circumstance that holds you by the balls, that's the time you wish you were created a woman!(women don't own balls)
Akuku Mach Pep
#46. Oh, you have no idea how crazy I can be. Get us in or you'll wish you were dead. -Tom Sterns Chaysing Memories
Jalpa Williby
#47. I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.
Donald Hall
#48. Close my eyes and feel you here. Sigh and wish you were, my friend. Love you still and deeply. Come to me again.
Anonymous
#49. Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.
Joey McIntyre
#50. Some people are allergic to your success. Such people ... when you smile ... they cry, and wish you were dead.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#51. I wish you were here. Or that I was there. I wish that there was some chance of talking like this after tonight, or seeing each other. Like, really seeing each other. Of being alone, together.
Rainbow Rowell
#52. Before you lost your mind, how did you make a living?"
"I was a hitman for the Mafia. Are you done crying yet?"
"I wasn't crying! And I wish you were a hitman because, if I had money, I'd hire you right this minute to knock yourself off.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#53. What if you already are the person you wish you were but you just don't know it yet?
Debra Formo
#54. Green means you're green with envy. Green means you wish you were me.
Judy Moody
#55. He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.
Orson Scott Card
#56. If a stranger called and interrupted you, you said with your hearty tongue, "I'm glad to see you," and said with your heartier soul, "I wish you were with the cannibals and it was dinner-time." When
Mark Twain
#57. Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.
John Bingham
#58. I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had. cherishing what we did. I wish you were here.
Marie Lu
#59. If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.
Jon Bon Jovi
#60. We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along.
Rick Wright
#61. Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom
Jim Rohn
#62. If you fall from here, if you're not dead you're gonna wish you were.
Joe Teti
#63. Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
Saul Bellow
#64. Don't you wish you were Charles Bukowski? I can paint to. lift weights. and my little girl think that I am god. then other times, it's not so good.
Charles Bukowski
#65. I wish you were here so we could walk and talk in the soft rain.
Ben Harper
#66. I'm sorry. For everything I did. For everything I didn't. I wish you were here. I know it's not enough, but I guess this is the closest I am going to get, to saving you.
Hannah Harrington
#67. You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.
Abbi Glines
#68. Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.
Joyce Rachelle
#69. Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are ...
Anne Sexton
#70. Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.
Amy Sedaris
#71. Wish you were with the cannibals and it was dinner-time.
Mark Twain
#73. One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.
Dave Mustaine
#74. Actually, I wish you were a chef. Then I'd get something out of this relationship.
Wesley Chu
#75. The worst part is, you never know what mistake you are going to make, when you will do so, and what effect it will have on your life. Makes you wish you were pshychic doesn't it?
Nasir
#76. You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?
Sandre to Catriana
Guy Gavriel Kay
#77. President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.
Bob Dole
#78. And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn't do anything for a long time. I had other projects, and I didn't get around to doing anything for a bit.
Gerald Scarfe
#79. You're so full of yourself."
"You wish you were full of myself," he retorts.
I shiver and blush. "I can't tell if that was the best comeback ever or the worst.
L. H. Cosway
#80. What doesn't kill you, makes you wish you were dead
Toni Aleo
#81. Don't idolize others. Don't wish you were someone else! You're the best you. Please don't wish to be someone else. Just do you. Worship yourself. If anything, wish to be a better you.
Unknown
#82. I understand you. I know you love me. I wish you were there.
Auliq Ice
#83. You've been on my mind
Wish you were on the tip of my tongue.
P.J. Bayliss
#84. The world is so ass-backwards it almost makes you wish you were dyslexic.
Dennis Miller
#86. Don't wish easier, wish you were better. When you become better it will naturally become easier.
Jim Rohn
#87. So, say, when they're out in their little boats and they hear voices in the night, they forget whatever destination they had in mind and they go tearing straight towards the sound, screaming their heads off.
Simon Spurrier
#88. Yeah, a lot of people ask me to take my shirt off, which is aggressive. I wish that I were just one of those guys who was just like, 'You know, look, when I was seven I had a six-pack, and it just never went away.'
Max Greenfield
#89. They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'
Charlotte Rae
#90. I have every right. You were born to be mine. And you wish to deny me the right to say how I feel, to speak the truth?
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#91. this, they've never felt that, they no longer feel anything, they don't count anymore. I think it's small-minded. I wish there were more people over sixty here, to tell you the truth.
Kathleen Rooney
#92. You're my Star, a stargazer too,
and I wish that I were Heaven,
with a billion eyes to look at you!
Plato
#93. GRATIANO
I have a wife I love. I wish she were in heaven so she could appeal to some power to make this dog Jew change his mind.
NERISSA
It's nice you're offering to sacrifice her behind her back. That wish of yours could start quite an argument back at home.
William Shakespeare
#94. Hospitality is the act of making people feel at home - when you wish they were.
Renee Garrison
#95. Bloody hell, grandsire," were Bones's first words as he approached. "You've left behind a wreckage of burned bodies, dead vampires, missing persons, threatened Guardians, and video evidence of our race's existence. Then you go on holiday. You really do have a death wish
Jeaniene Frost
#96. Just friends? Alright friend we won't kiss goodnight, and I won't hold you tight and wish that you were mine just for one night. I will separate my dreams from my eyes, separate my heart from my spine, keep clean the lines between my hands and your innards.
Coco J. Ginger
#97. How I wish your bearing and conversation were such that, on seeing or hearing you, people would say: 'This man reads the life of Jesus Christ.
Josemaria Escriva
#99. What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?
Susan Cain
#100. I wish I could fly.
I wish I were rich.
I wish I had more time."
"But you can, and you are, and you do;
I wish you would open your eyes.
Richelle E. Goodrich
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