Wished Quotes

663 Wished quotes by 517 unique authors

I disobeyed Ra's wishes, and so he ordered my onw father, Shu-" "Hang on," I said. "Shoe?" "S-h-u," she said. "The god of the wind."… — Rick Riordan
He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart. — Kim Edwards
I wished that my job was baking muffins in a muffin shop, where all I'd have to do was crack eggs and measure flour and… — Jennifer Weiner
I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's… — Ralph Ellison
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,… — William Shakespeare
Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, ‘I’m in love with a man and I… — Abigail Reynolds
...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she… — John Irving
But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which. — Steig Larsson
So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least… — Carl Sagan
I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :) — Elizabeth Gilbert
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… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled… — Diana Gabaldon
And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them. — Melina Marchetta
If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? — Jodi Picoult
We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely. — David Mitchell
He'd barely seen me coming, and despite the horribleness of what I'd just done, I kind of wished one of my instructors had been there… — Richelle Mead
Too bad the freedom seemed like a prison. As his boots hit the mosaic floor at the bottom of the stairs, John Mellencamp's old-school, bic-lighter… — J R Ward
What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all — Georgette Heyer
Think about it. These guys have far more reasons to pull a prank on Doug than they do me. I kind of wished we had… — Robin Jones Gunn
Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit. — Ann Brashares
Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and… — Jim Henson
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… — Victoria Alexander
He wished he hadn't pulled me from the path of Tyler's van - there was no other conclusion I could come to. — Stephenie Meyer
Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of… — Gustave Flaubert

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