I Wished Quotes

182 quotes by 157 authors

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… — Stephen Baldwin
I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't… — Jo Brand
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. — Frederick The Great
I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, but then he realized that… — Eric Carr
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I… — Betty Buckley
Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It… — Diane Ackerman
I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I… — River Phoenix
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,… — Kathleen Turner
These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some… — Winston Churchill
I wished that, for once, faery tales â€“ real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales â€“ would have a happy ending. — Julie Kagawa
I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum. — Wole Soyinka
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a… — Ian Mckellen
And every breath I ever took, every tear I ever wept, every star I wished upon seemed nothing until now. Every prayer I ever said… — Jann Arden
It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying. — Gillian Flynn
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.… — Ayn Rand
As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners? — Joan of Arc
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture… — Thaddeus Stevens
Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and… — Waris Dirie
I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless. — Ingrid Law

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