Top 857 Wished Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
I could always say I wished I had a better film career... but overall, I've been one of the lucky ones.
But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.
I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."
Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.
Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.
It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
When I was getting it relaxed, I almost wished my hair didn't grow, because it was so expensive and broke easily.
Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!
To play Khal Drogo was phenomenal, and I wished there was more stuff he could have done. I'm going to miss that character.
My first Valentine gift was a cute little pup gifted to me by my family, which I had always wished for.
The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.
How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
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.
I don't really believe in closure. That's something that writers talk about or people wished that they had.
I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.
My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned
How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
I don't run after money or fame. The only thing I have always wished is to be a classical singer.
When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.
I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.
Look bravely up into the sky,
And be content with knowing
That God wished for a buttercup
Just here, where you are growing.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.
Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.
Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can't be ignored nor wished away.
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.
Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.
Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.
As I have yet to meet a gentleman I wished to spend the rest of my days with, I would say the failure was on their part rather than mine.
I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.
A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.
He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.
As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you.
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.
I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.
I wished very much for the day of my debut at Old Trafford, and I did in the best way, scoring a goal.
I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
I've always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote.
I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.
Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
He wished he hadn't pulled me from the path of Tyler's van - there was no other conclusion I could come to.
I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
