Wish Quotes - Page 156

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.

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late.

Everybody in the world has a different reason for wishing they could say things that most people know not to say.

I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.

Like memories. You can make yourself believe that they have been erased. But they are there, if you look closely. If you have a wish to uncover them.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

Most of promoting seems unnatural to me, and I wish I didn't have to do it. I'm not especially good at tooting my own horn. However, I do love to connect with readers. That's why I try to keep up with my social media even when I don't have a new book coming out.

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

You know what, my new mantra is this: ANT AND DEC. Ant and Dec. I might get their names tattooed on each wrist. Because they smile, and they never complain, and it seems to work for them and I wish I could be more like that.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.

We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look at him, I see the addict. And when he looks at me, he sees what he would rather not remember. I wish I could be his adored little girl again, sitting at his side.

What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

"What would people say about you when you're gone?" That to me was a very important question. I thought about that for a couple of years and said, "What people say about you when you're gone doesn't matter. You're gone." What really matters is, "What do you say about yourself in the here and now? Are you proud of what you're doing?" If you had a short lease and it ended today, or it ends tomorrow, what would you wish you would have done? You better do it.

If your life lease, your existence was canceled tomorrow, what would you wish you had done? What are the things you would like to impact? Start on those and you can change the world. Maybe you can only make your neighborhood a little bit better, or make someone's life a little bit better. Isn't that the kind of purpose?

How many times have we come away from an argument wishing we had said and done something different?

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.