Wish You Quotes - Page 10

• A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Friendship, Taken

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• You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Communication, Kids

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• I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.

  Gerald Durrell

  Knitting, Wish, Arguing

  Gerald Durrell (2006). “The Corfu Trilogy”, p.251, Penguin UK

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• The weather is here Wish you were beautiful.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Beautiful, Weather, Wish

  Song: The Weather Is Here, I Wish You Were Beautiful, Album: Coconut Telegraph, 1981

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• The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, Love You, Sarcasm

  Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.406, Open Road Media

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• As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Positive, What Matters

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• Bertie," he said, "I want your advice." "Carry on." "At least, not your advice, because that wouldn't be much good to anybody. I mean, you're a pretty consummate old [prat], aren't you? Not that I want to hurt your feelings, of course." "No, no, I see that." "What I wish you to do is put the whole thing to that fellow Jeeves of yours, and see what he suggests.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Hurt, Mean, Advice

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• You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

  Henry James

  Wish, Looks, Mills

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.2844, e-artnow

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• I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

  Tony Kushner

  Confusing, Wish, Would Be

  Tony Kushner (1993). “Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes”

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• If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Beautiful, Wish, Way

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• Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you overlook her most important qualities of having a strong testimony, living the principles of the gospel, loving home, wanting to be a mother in Zion, and supporting you in your priesthood responsibilities. Of course, she should be attractive to you.... And one good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mother, Strong, Responsibility

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Giving, Choices, Wish

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• Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

  Ayn Rand

  Wish, Gone, Compromise

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.60, Penguin

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• I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Years, Design, Wish

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• There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

  Dale Carnegie

  Skills, Wish, Literature

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.94, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Home, Heart, Sleep

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.108, Penguin

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• Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

  Mitch Albom

  Sad, Losing A Loved One, Loss

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• I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

  Cornelia Funke

  Beautiful, Heart, Eye

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.660, Scholastic Inc.

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• One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Time, Luck, Wish

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.” “What’s it like?” He paused. “It’s...beautiful, really.” “Tell me.” And so Po described to Katsa what hid in the blackness of the cave; and outside, the world awaited them.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Wish, Caves

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• You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.

  Rick Bragg

  Hate, Wish, Machines

  FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from Aug 10, 2010

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• Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Dark, Sea

  Anne Rice (1992). “The Tale of the Body Thief”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.

  Charles Dickens

  Fire, Wish, Weakness

  Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.143, Prestwick House Inc

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• It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.

  James Thurber

  Mother, Hate, Garden

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• ...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

  Mitch Albom

  Wish, Collecting, Whole Life

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Feb 11, 2017

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