Top 857 Wished Quotes & Sayings

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.

I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their alters.

Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.

The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.

I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.

All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.

If I hold you with my emotions, you'll become a wished-for companion.

I wished I could share my own optimism.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there?

I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

...To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done.

My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.

For so many years, I wished it could have been different. I wished I could have gotten the opportunity sooner. I would have loved to see what had happened had I got to the NFL right out of college and all of those different things.

I've never wished I was anybody else.

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress.

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished.

I wished for just one medal as a junior.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.

The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.

Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.

If you wished to be loved, love.

What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.

I have wished you something None of the others would.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

For quite sometime, I've secretly wished for a bigger butt.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

There are books in rivulets and sermons in stones. You can gather lessons from everything. If a man does nothing whatsoever he recedes into his own self. God didn't do anything; He was one and wished to be many. He wished - and there were many. If He had not wished there to be many, it would have been sufficient-there would still be the wordless state. So to be in a wordless state is very supreme.

The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

I wished for her,” he says.

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

The hour I have long wished for is now come.

We are now as I wished we could be then.

I think I wished for you all of my life.

I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished

The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it came true that night, and many nights after. A brief and shining span of happiness, it was the pivot point around which his whole life spun.

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.

I've never wished for people to recognise me or anything.