I Wish Quotes

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

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.

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is maybe for the best.

We just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It's not as laidback as I wish it could be.

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.

Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.

Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.

As for superpower: I wish I could eat a million pastries and not gain weight. I wish I were Pastry Woman.

I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.

I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic.

I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.

I know how easy it is to be swept away by stories, by things you wish were real.

If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home.

Sometimes I wish the girl would make the first move.

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.

I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

You can't just wish to be a millionaire; you have to figure out how to earn it.

I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.

I wish we had the $4 trillion or $5 trillion. I wish it were spent right here in the United States, on our schools, hospitals, roads, airports, and everything else that are all falling apart.

I wish the press was fair. They're really dishonest. The media is really dishonest. It's incredible.

I will release my tax returns - against my lawyer's wishes - when she releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted. As soon as she releases them, I will release.

And personally, I watched him [Khizr Khan]. I wish him the best of luck.

The government of Mexico is terrific. I don't blame them for what's happened. I don't blame them for taking advantage of the United States. I wish our politicians were so smart.

If I had my choice, I wish this country, America, were running great. I wish I could stand up and say, "Wow, this place is really running fantastically."

I just want to say I owe the whole reds organization a great deal. Great staff top to bottom and I wish those guys all the best.

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.

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.

I have no answers, but every day I wish I could have the same point of view for any 24-hour period. I wish I was in some system where I don't constantly question myself.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

I wish I could be attracted to unattractive women. They're just more interesting.

I wish I wasn't famous. I wish I was still in school So that I could have you in my dorm room, how I'd put it on you

But you could miss me with all that, diss me then crawl back. I really wish yall would fall back, but gettin rich suppose to solve that.

I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer.

I don't run outside, honestly. Sometimes I go out around my house, but mainly it's the stupid treadmill. I wish I had a better answer, but I'm very businesslike about my runs.

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political meanings, continues to sing his own peculiar and alluring song.