Wish Quotes - Page 177

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the situation around the world.

I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.

I was encouraged that a group of women wanted to start WISH List, which works like EMILY's List, only it supports pro-choice Republican women. It was started by one of our members, and I was happy to tell her how we did it and encourage her.

I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.

I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.

Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .

Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.

Like a heart, and I wish mine wasn't beating.

I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.

I decided long ago that my family absolutely comes first, and I don't regret that. I do, however, sometimes wish I had an extra five hours or so in the day!

A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.

Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping." "That's too easy," he said. "On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.

I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.

You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.

TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.

I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.

One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.

Our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had grown up farther together; where the extrapolation converges rather than diverges, where our wishes cohere rather than interfere; extrapolated as we wish that extrapolated, interpreted as we wish that interpreted.