I Wish Quotes

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself a quick email on my Blackberry when I think of something.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

I wish I had no heart, it aches so.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best!

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

I think the major device for me is that narrator's voice. I'm always trying to find a different kind of form to tell whatever story it is, and I wish that weren't so, because it drives me crazy.

I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me.

This is Rilke. I wish I had written it for you.

They bit you. You should've changed, too, you know." "Sometimes I wish I had," I told him. He closed his eyes, miles away on the other side of the bed. "Sometimes I do, too.

What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

I do not wish disaster to British arms.

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

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.

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him.

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

Whatever you wish for yourself today I'm wishing it doubled - in the nicest way! Have a Happy, Happy Birthday

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.

I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

I think back and I really feel for what he (Roger Maris) went through, for all the negative stuff that was going on in his life. I wish it didn't happen.