Wish You Quotes - Page 9

• The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing."

  Quentin Crisp

  Teacher, Depressing, Book

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1968.

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• Even through my good-looking youth, I wasn't called on for any romantic parts, which is okay. What I was called on to do, I enjoyed doing. The funny thing about life is that if you live long enough, I think, you'll get every wish you ever had. It'll all come true.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Funny Things, Long

  "Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen Talk THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, and Turning SIDEWAYS Into a Play". Press conference, collider.com. July 4, 2012.

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• You hung with me when all the others turned away, turned up their noses We liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we liked the same clothes Yeah we told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen Now I wish you would have told me, I wish I could have talked to you Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Goodbye, Clothes, Wish

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• But more I cannot wish you Than to wish you find your love Your own true love this day.

  Frank Loesser

  Love You, Wish, This Day

  Frank Loesser (2003). “The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Yinzer: DAMN!! I wish I had your balls! Tucker:"I wish you had a breath mint, but I guess we don't always get what we wish for.

  Tucker Max

  Wish, Balls, Mint

  Tucker Max (2011). “Assholes Finish First”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a lot of -- I struggle with a lot of shame over my past. There have been times when I've been incredibly embarrassed about the things that happened to me. I don't think that there is one human being in this world that would wish, you know, to be injured as a kid the way -- in ways that I was.

  Traci Lords

  Struggle, Kids, Past

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• Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view—and your eyes are full of happy tears—and you want to sing—and wish you had wings! And then—you can’t stay there, but must continue your journey—you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten

  Lloyd C. Douglas

  Distance, Eye, Journey

  Lloyd C. Douglas (2012). “The Robe”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

  Susan Cain

  Motivation, Inspiration, Journey

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• Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.

  Andy Stanley

  Wish

  Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.42, Zondervan

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• I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

  Maurice Sendak

  Live Your Life, Wish, Good Things

  "Celebrating 30 Years Of 'Fresh Air' As A Daily NPR Program". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, ypradio.org. May 12, 2017.

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• I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Wrestling, Hysteria

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• Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Silence, Wish, Littles

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• Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes ... you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Wish, Care

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• Here is a fact: someday you will die. What will you do with this incredible gift that is your life? Do you want to get to the end of the road and wish you had strived more, accomplished more, and loved more? To do these things you will have to take chances, demonstrate courage, and commit in a way that allows you to be flexible but never allows you to quit on yourself.

  Richard Machowicz

  Wish, Want, Way

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• The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end.

  Robin Sharma

  Wish, Waste, Used

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 07, 2014

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• I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Cat, Eye, Nursing

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• You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Space, Appreciate, Wish

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• I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

  Bram Fischer

  Punishment, Wish, Might

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• O, blackberry tart, with berries as big as your thumb, purple and black, and thick with juice, and a crust to endear them that will go to cream in your mouth, and both passing down with such a taste that will make you close your eyes and wish you might live forever in the wideness of that rich moment.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Eye, Purple, Forever

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who've hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Hurt, Healing, Acceptance

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• Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

  Laozi

  Wish, Bows, Moderation

  Laozi (1999). “Laozi”

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• Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are.

  Omar Suleiman

  People, Wish, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 13, 2015

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• Don't ask for the task to be easy... just ask for it to be worth it
  Don't wish it was easier... wish you were better
  Don't ask for less challenge... ask for more skill
  Don't ask for less problems... and for more wisdom
  It's the challenge that makes the experience.
  Life and it's colour and meaning and adventure for you is this collection of experiences.
  To wish them away is to wish your life away.

  Jim Rohn

  Adventure, Skills, Challenges

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• Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving

  Gil Fronsdal

  Wish, Intention, Craving

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• Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Memories, Blow, Childhood

  Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.156, St. Martin's Press

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