I Wish Quotes

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
- Mark Twain

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.
- Mark Twain

Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad, then, but I didn't mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular.
- Mark Twain

I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wishI wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it andappraised itand taxed itand licensed itand staled it!
- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Wish you were with him?'
Volfier frowned sideways. 'I wish we'd won at Ospria, then the choice wouldn't have come up. But then I wish my wife hadn't fucked the baker while I was away in the Union on campaign three years ago. Wishing don't change nothing.'
Shivers grinned, and tapped at his metal eye with a fingernail. 'That there is a fact.
- Joe Abercrombie

....And then you get some jerk for a boss. And you think, 'I wish God was my boss. That would be awesome. He wouldn't care about my sales sheet. He would care about my soul sheet.' Then you feel a little embarrassed because that was such a low-quality joke.
- Jonathan Acuff

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and 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 us."

- J R R Tolkien

But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more of your kin among us. But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood.
- Legolas
- J R R Tolkien

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
- J R R Tolkien

I wish none of this had happened.
- J R R Tolkien

I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish that none of this had happened." -Frodo Baggins
"So do all who live to see such times... but that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." -Gandalf the Grey
- J R R Tolkien

You cannot be, I know, nor do I wish to see you, an inactive spectator....We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them
- Abigail Adams

This country has done much, I wish it may do more, and annul every narrow idea in religion, government, and commerce.
- John Adams

I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.
- John Adams

You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn't. Instead I had daggers and determination.
That would have to do.
- Ann Aguirre

Right now, I wish I'd stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I don't mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leavingthat you love me, but you don't need me. You don't lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now.
- Ann Aguirre

I think I wished for you all of my life.
- Cecelia Ahern

The first day of the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I want to
be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really
don't feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn't bothered.
- Cecelia Ahern

Well, Tommy, he said, I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you. And that's the wish of a sincere friend, an old friend. You know that?
- James Joyce

Then Drew shuffles into the dining hall. I drop my toast, and my mouth drifts open.
Calling him "bruised" would be an understatement. His face is swollen and purple. He has a split lip and a cut running through his eyebrow. He keeps his eyes down on the way to his table, not even lifting them to look at me. I glance across the room at Four. He wears the satisfied smile I wish I had on.
- Veronica Roth

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did.
I don't.
- Veronica Roth

I wish we were alone," he says.
"I almost always wish that," I say.
- Veronica Roth

I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.
- Nader Almasri

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.
- Jessica Alba

I wish there were two of me and 48-hour days so I could get everything done. But for me, I have to not try and think that everything has to be 100% perfect all the time and leave room for error. As long as my kids feel loved and a priority, everything really is secondary.
- Jessica Alba

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.
- Mitch Albom

Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.
- Paulo Coelho

Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.
- Paulo Coelho

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.
- Jodi Picoult

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
- Jodi Picoult

Here I am, wasting away inside
a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is
stay in the story.
If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I'd ask her why on
earth she would ever trade a single second of the world
she's in for the one in which I'm stuck
- Jodi Picoult

Oh, don't I wish I could manage things for you as I do for my heroines! You're pretty enough and good enough already, so I'd have some rich relation leave you a fortune unexpectedly; then you'd dash out as an heiress, scorn everyone who has slighted you, go abroad, and como home my Lady Something in a blaze of splendor and elegance.
- Louisa May Alcott

I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity!
- Louisa May Alcott

I wish I had no heart, it aches so...
- Louisa May Alcott

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
- Muhammad Ali

He touched her face, gently, with the back of his hand. 'you disappear so completely into your head sometimes.' he said. 'i wish i could follow you.'
you do, she wanted to say, you live in my head all the time
- Cassandra Clare

You disappear so completely into your head sometimes. I wish I could follow you. (Jace Wayland)
- Cassandra Clare

Meliorn looked impassive. "Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court."
"I wish someone had mentioned that earlier," said Simon, to no one in particular. "I take it I'm just supposed to wait out here until vines start growing on me?"
Meliorn considered. "That might offer significant amusement.
- Cassandra Clare

I wish I could hate you," he said. His voice was light, his mouth curved in an unconcerned half smile, his eyes sick with misery. "I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I do hate you and then I see you and I..
- Cassandra Clare

Do you miss Wales?" Tessa inquired.
Will shrugged lightly. "What's to miss? Sheep and singing," he said. "And the ridiculous language. Fe hoffwn i fod mor feddw, fyddai ddim yn cofio fy enw."
"What does that mean?"
"It means 'I wish to get so drunk I no longer remember my own name,' Quite useful.
- Cassandra Clare

Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you!
- Cassandra Clare

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
- Ernest Hemingway

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
- Ernest Hemingway

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.
- Ernest Hemingway

I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers.
- Ernest Hemingway

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
- John Ruskin

I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.
- Richie Allen

I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.
- Steven Wright

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.
Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence.
- Dorothy Allison

I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.
- Nicole Krauss

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.
- Nicole Krauss

Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my world, I was inspired to write my ass off. But that is not what happens. What happens is we lie around in bed eating chocolate and screwing. Art is what happens when things don't work out, when you're licking your wounds. Art is, to a larger extent than people would like to think, a productive licking of the wounds.
- Steve Almond

I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, 'Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?' I replied, 'Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
- Alexandre Dumas

I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
- Alexandre Dumas

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
- David Amram

I know it doesn't make noise," he explained. "Going through the motions is comforting to me. I wish I had a real piano." The wistfulness in his tone was aching to hear.
"Did it used to have keys on it?" Livia asked.
"I did draw them once, but it was in pencil. No matter. My heart knows right where they are." He watched her as he tickled the pretend keys again.
- Debra Anastasia

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

I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.
- Laurie Halse Anderson

No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.
- Laurie Halse Anderson

I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am....It was my fault. Can I kill myself here, or should I do it outside, so the mess on your carpet doesn't upset your mother?
- Laurie Halse Anderson

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
- Ian Anderson

I wish you could have been there for the sun & the rain & the long, hard hills. For the sound of a thousand conversations scattered along the road. For the people laughing & crying & remembering at the end. But, mainly, I wish you could have been there.
- Brian Andreas

I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.
- Brian Andreas

Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
- Marc Andreessen

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
- Marc Andreessen

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

Narziss, I am guilty of having passed rash judgement on you. I had thought you proud, and perhaps I did you an injustice. You are much alone, brother; you have many to admire you, but no friends. I wished to find the pretext to chide you a little. But I find none. I wanted to see you as disobedient as young men of your age so easily are. But you never disobey. Sometimes Narziss, you make me uneasy.
- Hermann Hesse

I should not have had that fear of death when I wished for it all the same. The unhappiness that I need and long for is different. It is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and lust after death. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.
- Hermann Hesse

I wish that I could turn back time
cause now the guilt is all mine
can't live without
the trust from those you love
I know we can't forget the past
you can't forget love & pride
because of that, it's killing me inside
- Mike Wyzgowski (interpreted)
- Hideaki Anno

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
- Piers Anthony

I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.
- Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson

i wish means: would it be nice if..
i want means: if i want it enough i will get it.
- Paul Arden

You're my Star, a stargazer too,
and I wish that I were Heaven,
with a billion eyes to look at you!
- Plato

God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me.
Not him, just the jacket.
- Lisa Kleypas

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

You say the gentleman I knew has been replaced. How I wish I could offer better comfort than to say that no matter how you have changed, you wil be welcomed when you return. Do what you must. If it helps you to endure, put the feelings away for now, and lock the door. Perhaps someday we'll air them out together.
- Lisa Kleypas

Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.
- Lisa Kleypas

I wish,' said Rose anxiously, 'I understood you.'
'Don't try,' said Lotty, smiling.
'But I must, because I love you.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim

I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.
- Gemma Arterton

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.
- Richie Ashburn

If you're gonna leave, I wish you'd just leave. Why do you keep coming back if you're not going to stay? Because even when you're gone, you're never really gone... I won't get over it if you keep coming back. Losing you once was hard enough. And now you're here again and everything's coming back. I'm going to get screwed. And I can't do it again.
- Brodi Ashton

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
- Nancy Astor

I wish to you sunshine, my dear one, my dear one. And treetops for you to soar past. I wish to you innocence, my child, my child. I pray you don't grow up too fast.
Never know pain, my dear one, my dear one. Nor hunger nor fear nor sorrow. Never know war, my child, my child. Remember your hope for tomorrow.
- Amelia Atwater Rhodes

I wish I didn't have to think about you. You wanted to impress me; well, I'm not impressed, I'm disgusted...You wanted to make damn good and sure I'd never be able to turn over in bed again without feeling that body beside me, not there but tangible, like a leg that's been cut off. Gone but the place still hurts.
- Margaret Atwood

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
- David Herbert Lawrence

I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.
- Melina Marchetta

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
- John James Audubon

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
- Saint Augustine

Quid est tempus? Si nemo me queret, scio; si aliqui explicare velim, nescio.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. - Saint Augustine
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo

He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.
- Jane Austen

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
- Jane Austen

I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but like every body else, it must be in my own way.
- Jane Austen

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
- Jane Austen

I wish we had a donkey. The thing would be for us all to come on donkeys, Jane, Miss Bates, and me--and my caro sposo walking by. I really must talk to him about purchasing a donkey. In a country life I conceive it to be a sort of necessary; for, let a woman have ever so many resources, it is not possible for her to be always shut up at home;--and very long walks, you know--in summer there is dust, and in winter there is dirt.
- Jane Austen

You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.'
'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.
- Jane Austen

I wish with all my soul his wife may plague his heart out.
- Jane Austen

Not that I wish to give you any ammunition, but the sad fact of it is-most men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will follow. And didn't you say you wished to be married?'
'Not to someone who follows you as the lead sheep.
- Julia Quinn

I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point.
- Frankie Avalon

Then the silence came back, that awful silence that seemed to just take over.
In that silence I kept hearing what I had said--heard it repeating itself over and over again like a stuck record. I wanted it to stop. I didn't want to say things like that anymore. I was sick of that kind of lying. I wished I could say something real.
But the silence was too big.
- Avi

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.
- Emanuel Ax

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.
- Bill Ayers

I love you so much, Julia. I wish i could touch you. I can't wait until you're closer.
- Kahlen Aymes

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
- Lauren Bacall

I watched you while you were sleeping and you looked completely at peace. I wish I could feel that. I wish I could close my eyes and feel at peace. But I can't. I can't feel anything if I'm not
with you, and even then all I can do is want something that I don't think I can ever have, at least not now. So I left this, and my peace, with you. Stark.
- P C Cast

We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, "It is my will that the sun shall rise"; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, "I wish it to roll"; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, "Here I lie, but here I wish to lie." But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression "I wish"?
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.
- Will Christopher Baer

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!
- Joanna Baillie

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
- Oksana Baiul

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
- Oksana Baiul

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
- Tammy Faye Bakker

I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused.
- Scott Bakula

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.
- Stephen Baldwin

I wish i could write them down, these little coloured parables or poems that live for a moment in some cell of my brain, and then leave it to go wandering elsewhere. I hate writing; the mere act of writing a thing down is troublesome to me. I want some fine medium, and look for it in vain.
- Oscar Wilde

JACK: I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.
ALGERNON: We have.
JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?
ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course.
JACK: What fools.
- Oscar Wilde

I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
- Oscar Wilde

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.
- Eric Bana

Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you, my kind of successes.
- Cameron Crowe

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.
- Christine Baranski

Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing.
- W N P Barbellion

Personally, I wish D. would come after me, I need a good dance partner. My Daimons have lame legs. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Good. Now the first thing you do is press in the clutch and slide the gear into reverse."
She placed his hand on the gear shift in the center of her car, and showed him how to move it up and down.
"You know, you really shouldn't fondle that in front of me, Grace. It's cruel."
"Julian! Do you mind? I'm only trying to show you how to shift my gears."
He snorted. "I wish you'd shift my gears like that.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Then why can't I bully you into procreating? (Wulf)
See! I'm the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Yeah, I wish I could have stayed awake long enough to see your face when I changed over. (Wren)
No, you don't. I assure you, it wasn't pretty. (Maggie)
There's never anything about you that isn't pretty, Maggie. You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. (Wren)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wish I could take away your pain. I wish I could go back to when you were born and take you somewhere safe. Far away from all the people who've hurt you. (Kiara)
You're doing that now. (Nykyrian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wish I could be whole for you...I wish I could hold you and dance with you, take you in my arms and make love to you the way I want to. (Adron)
And I'm just grateful I have you at all. It's not your body or face that I love, Adron. It's your heart, your soul, and your mind. (Livia)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

You know, Vik, you're amazingly human at times. (Alix)
I know. But I wonder if the feelings I have are real or just electrical stimulations in my cortex that simulate human emotion. I wish I knew if they were real or imagined. (Vik)
And that makes you completely human, sweetie. We all have those doubts. (Alix)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

You're so beautiful. I wish I'd seen you as a child. (Acheron)
You didn't miss much. I had buck teeth and stringy hair. (Kat)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Anyone in your family not a killer? (Syd)
After this I'm beginning to wonder if I don't have a serial mom. (Steele)
I wish. She should have beaten you to death with a turkey leg. (Tina)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wish I could just fling myself into bed with you, but I can't. I don't want to be used that way and I don't want to use you! Can't you understand that?
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

You told me once, long ago, to look into a mirror and see your face. I refused to then. But now Mnimi has forced me to look at my own reflection. I've seen it through my eyes and I've seen it through yours. I wish to the gods that I could change what happened between us. If I could go back, I would never deny you. But I can't. We both know that. Now I just want the chance to know you as I should have known you all those centuries ago. (Styxx)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wish I had left him as he was. I wish you had told me this would happen. (Amanda)
Told you what, Amanda? That the two of you would spend the rest of your lives loving each other? Raising your kis? Neither one of you have any idea how miraculous your life is. How many people would gladly sell their souls for what you have. Forget Artemis and immortality. What you have is infinitely more previous and rare. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Are you mad? (Artemis)
Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wish I hadn't cried so much ! said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.
I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !
- Lewis Carroll

I wish I could manage to be glad!" the Queen said. "Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!
- Lewis Carroll

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
- Drew Barrymore

I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow.
- Kylie Bax

I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.
- Kylie Bax

Those dreams I have at night are going to drive me crazy. Last night I dreamed that little red-haired girl and I were eating lunch together... But she's gone... She's moved away, and I don't know where she lives, and she doesn't know I even exist, and I'll never see her again... And... I wish men cried..
- Charles M Schulz

Nobody likes me!"
"I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that I was lowering my standards! You wouldn't want me to do that, would you? Be reasonable! I have standards that I have set up for liking people, and you just don't meet those standards! It wouldn't be reasonable for me to like you!"
"I hate myself for being so unreasonable!
- Charles M Schulz

Why is it that you don't love me?"
"Sometimes I wish I knew..."
"Don't anybody tell him!!
- Charles M Schulz

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
- Simone De Beauvoir

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
- Alison Bechdel

I could die today, if I wished, merely by making a little effort, if I could wish, if I could make an effort. But it is just as well to let myself die, quietly, without rushing things. Something must have changed. I will not weigh upon the balance any more, one way or the other.
- Samuel Beckett

let us say before i go any further, that i forgive nobody. i wish them all an atrocious life in the fires of icy hell and in the execrable generations to come.
- Samuel Beckett

I wished I could have made him stay, to explain that I wanted things between us to be good, not so that he'd defend me better but, if I can put it this way, good in a natural way. Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.
- Albert Camus

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
- Brendan Behan

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
- Desmond Tutu

I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach.
- Kristen Bell

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

I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.
- L M Montgomery

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.
- L M Montgomery

Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad."
Anne: "You know something, Diana? We are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit, and we both have wonderful imaginations. We should be as happy as queens."
[gestures to the setting sun]
Anne Shirley: "Look at that. You couldn't enjoy its loveliness more if you had ropes of diamonds.
- L M Montgomery

We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
- Aimee Bender

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.
- Dirk Benedict

This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.
- David Benioff

I wished I stayed at the movies, where I could have at least had some popcorn with my drama.
- Robin Benway

I don't hold Travis anymore, of course- not to read to him, or for any other reason, either. I wish I'd known that the last time was going to be the last time.
- Elizabeth Berg

When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together.
- Haruki Murakami

Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to something as simple as that? Why do you even have to ask? Why do you have to make a girl SAY something like this? I like you more than I like him, that's all. I wish I had fallen in love with somebody a little more handsome, of course. But I didn't. I fell in love with you!
- Haruki Murakami

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.
- Howard Berman

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
- Thornton Wilder

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.
- Elmer Bernstein

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
- Yogi Berra

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
- Danielle Berry

I wish all men were like dogs.
- Halle Berry

I wish you could have made me loving you.
- Toba Beta

I wish I could wait forever for your love, my sweetheart..
even though I know for sure...that none of us is immortal.
- Toba Beta

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.
- Paul Bettany

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.
- Joseph Beuys

I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt - you know, a butt that'll bring tears to your eyes?
- Leslie Bibb

If poetry is outta style then I wish to bring it back
- Justin Bienvenue

A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.
- Jason Biggs

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.
- Robert Kiyosaki

Sam: You know what I wish?
Cassel: What?
Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.
- Holly Black

My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
- Holly Black

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.
- Malorie Blackman

I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.
- Selma Blair

Fucking nightmares.
My heart starts to slow down. Glancing down at the floor, I see Tybalt, who is glaring at me with a puffed-up tail. I wonder if he had been sleeping on my chest and I catapulted him off when I woke up. I don't remember, but I wish that I did, because it would've been hilarious.
- Kendare Blake

I wish it didn't have to hurt you," she says.
"Do you?"
"Of course. Believe me, Cassio. I never wanted to be this tragic.
- Kendare Blake

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.
- Brenda Blethyn

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.
- Mary J Blige

I wish I wasn't a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.
- Francesca Lia Block

Okay. I wish for world peace," Weetzie said. "I am sorry," the genie said. "I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league." "Then I wish for an infinite number of wishes!" Those people on fairy tales never thought of that. "People in fairy tales wish for that all the time," the genie said. "They arent stupid. It just isnt in the records because I cant grant that type of wish.
- Francesca Lia Block

Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!' said Jimmy longingly. 'How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!
- Enid Blyton

One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
- Wade Boggs

John," she said, "does it make every one unhappy when they study and learn lots of things"
He paused and smiled. "I am afraid it does," he said.
"And, John, are you glad you studied?"
"Yes," came the answer, slowly but positively.
She watched the flickering lights upon the sea, and said thoughtfully,
"I wish I was unhappy,andand," putting both arms about
his neck, "I think I am, a little, John.
- W E B Du Bois

How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time...We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for old friendships, the old loves. Sometimes I wish I was young again. Or that I could travel back in time and pick up the threads. Absent so long, I may have stopped loving you, friends; but I will never stop loving the Day I loved you.
- Ruskin Bond

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
- Bono

I always had this idea that, 'Sure, I wished I was a boy and felt more like a boy and all of that.' But I wasn't, so I would deal with it. And I for some reason thought there were other lesbians that felt that way and that was just part of that community.
- Chastity Bono

Sandry: "There has to be something we can do."
Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix."
Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.
- Tamora Pierce

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."
She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.
- Tamora Pierce

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.
- William Shakespeare

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.
- William Shakespeare

I don't know whether Mrs. Borden is out or in; I wish you would see if she is in her room.
- Lizzie Andrew Borden

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
- Victor Borge

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
- Samuel Johnson

...After all, each story is a Rorschach Test, isn't it? And if people find beasties and bedbugs in my ink-splotches, I cannot prevent it, can I? They will insist on seeing them, anyway, and that is their privilege. Still, I wish people, quasi-intellectuals, did not try so hard to find the man under the old maid's bed. More often than not, as we know, he simply isn't there.
- Ray Bradbury