I Wish Quotes

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.

Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner.

Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.

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.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

It was like having a genie. I'd only get so many wishes.

I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would." "Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.

Frank: "I wish I was ADHD or dyslexic. All I got is lactose intolerance." Percy: "Seriously?" Frank: "And I love ice cream too.

He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows.

For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.

Thanks for everything.” “As you wish,” the captain said. If axes could frown, I’m sure he would have. “Stay sharp,” Carter told him.

I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne!

I wish that those who believe in the doctrines of grace would be more gracious. That's all I'd say... I'm an evangelical. I believe the doctrines of grace.

A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

The only thing I wish I could figure out is how I got misunderstood regarding the type of person I really am and what I accomplished.

Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.

Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say “Yes” and hand me a chicken leg, or “No” and slap me with an old fish.

It was sort of the first movie [The Specials ] where I really got to let my comedy freak flag fly. And everybody in it made me laugh really hard. I wish more people had seen it.

The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members cannot wish that away, that is a reality.

I hate to be sporty and athletic. I wish that I could be, but I just wasn't born that way.

Wishing is a goal without energy behind it.

I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?

We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.

It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

I wish the dashboard indicators for lights were standardized throughout the auto industry.

If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.

For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.

I wish these flies would piss off.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

I wish I could be elegant.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.

I really like Blade. I wish people would make hard R-rated fantasy movies again. It's completely irrelevant, but people should do that more. I haven't seen that many vampire things.

Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.