Wish You Quotes - Page 9

• But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.

  David Platt

  Wish, Looks, Care

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• Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

  Philip Larkin

  Thinking, Wish, Next

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

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• Whereever you end up;" Jack whispered into my ear."I wish you clear skies. Always

  Wendy Mass

  Sky, Wish, Ears

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• Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.

  Sarah Dessen

  Couple, Two, Heathers

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.75, Penguin

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• "Catherine." she paused. I waited, tapping my finger on my desk. Then she spoke words that had me almost falling out of my chair. "I've decided to come to your wedding." I actually glanced at my phone again to see if I'd been mistaken and it was someone else who'd called me. "Are you drunk?" I got out when I could speak. She signed. "I wish you wouldn't marry that vampire, but I'm tired of him coming between us." Aliens replaced her with a pod person, I found myself thinking. That's the only explanation

  Jeaniene Frost

  Fall, Tired, Thinking

  "At Grave's End". Book by Jeaniene Frost, December 30, 2008.

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• Aren’t you forgetting something?” – Acheron “What?” – Artemis “Your payment.” – Acheron “The happiness on your face when first you touched him was enough. I only wish you’d been there when your daughter was born, but that was my fault. I’ve had a lifetime of joy, hugs and love from her and you missed all of that because of my stupidity and fear. His life is my gift to both of you. Let’s hope the future is much kinder to all of us than the past has been.” – Artemis

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Daughter, Past, Stupidity

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• In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, People, Wish

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• I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

  John Keats

  Life, Mean, Wish

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, August 1820, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 311

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• Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

  Thomas Gainsborough

  Time, Oil, Enemy

  Letter to a patron, in John Hayes 'Thomas Gainsborough' (1980) p. 14

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• I can feel his presence here in every stone he has touched, every person he has lifted up, every street and alley and city that he has changed in the few years of his life, because he is the Republic, he is our light, and I love you, I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did. I wish you were here. I love you, always.

  Marie Lu

  Love You, Heart, Grieving

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• He bends over to untie his shoes. “So, have you been ostracized from your little crowd of devotees?” “No,” I say automatically. Then I add, “Maybe. But they aren’t my devotees.” “Please. They’re like the Cult of Four.” I can’t help but laugh. “Jealous? Wish you had a Cult of Psychopaths to call your very own?

  Veronica Roth

  Jealous, Shoes, Laughing

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• One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have?

  Steven Furtick

  Focus, Enemy, Wish

  Steven Furtick (2012). “Greater: Dream bigger. Start smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life”, p.84, Multnomah

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• Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.

  Charlaine Harris

  Sick, Bullshit, Anxiety

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• Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Book, Reading, Smell

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “The Land of Laughs: A Novel”, p.88, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

  Robert Jordan

  Wish, May, Call Me

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Towers of Midnight”, p.748, Macmillan

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• I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.

  Steven Morrissey

  Song, Lying, Evil

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• Good luck, little Wanderer, good luck. How I wish you didn't need it.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Good Luck, Wish, Needs

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You think maybe it's time for the pity party to be over? You should stop feeling sorry for yourself and try to think positive,' it makes you wish you could saw their head off.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Sorry, Party, Thinking

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.54, Macmillan

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• I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Wish, New Life, Absence

  Lisa Kleypas (2007). “Mine Till Midnight”, p.180, Macmillan

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• It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself.

  Jenny Valentine

  Thinking, Knowing, Mad

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• Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.

  Sarah Kane

  Wish, I Loved You, Courses

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.240, A&C Black

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• I am not insane," he said. "A woman of your highly advanced intellect ought to be able to perceive that I am in love. With you. I wish you had told me. It was deuced embarrassing to find it out from your *brother*.

  Loretta Chase

  Brother, Love You, Wish

  Loretta Chase (2005). “Mr. Impossible”, p.363, Penguin

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• Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wish, Annoying, Fallen Angels

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Glass”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd wish you luck, but I don't think it would help," "Why not?" "My lady, you make your own luck.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Thinking, Luck, Wish

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, MIRA

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