Wish Quotes - Page 19

• I wish I had somebody to rock me to sleep.

  Jill Sobule

  Sleep, Rocks

  Song: Rock Me To Sleep, Album: Pink Pearl

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• It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.

  Emily Dickinson

  Crazy, Thinking, Essentials

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• If hope is just a mere wish, if it is just like making friends with fantasy, then consciousness will not respond to it. But if it is something significant, like a vision that is trying to blossom inside the heart of an individual, then consciousness will be elevated.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Vision, Trying

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• At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, Light, White

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.

  Gautama Buddha

  Crosses, Streams, Knows

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• I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.

  John Wilkes Booth

  Fighting, Blood, Courses

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• When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.

  Robert Jordan

  Rain, Long, Warning

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.484, Macmillan

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• I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie. Men are spoilt by frankness, I believe, yet I must tell you that I love you better than I supposed I did, when I promised to love you forever....I feel it thrilling through my frame, giving and promising pleasure.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Believe, Love You, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet M. Todd (2003). “The collected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft”

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• I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.

  C. S. Lewis

  Attitude, Lying, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.138, HarperCollins UK

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• What I wish to show by these feats of strength is that prayer and meditation can definitely increase one's outer capacities. I hope that by doing this I will be able to inspire many people to pray and meditate sincerely as part of their regular daily routine. my message is that if one needs strength, then uncovering one's inner strength through prayer and meditation is the fastest and most effective way to get it.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Prayer, People, Meditation

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• We live in a world of terrorism where evil acts are being regularly perpetrated in the name of your faith. And because it is your faith that is being invoked as justification for these evil acts, it is your problem. You can't wish it away, or ignore it, just because it has been caused by others. Instead, speak up and condemn terrorism, defend your role in the way of life that we all share here in Australia.

  Andrew Robb

  Names, Australia, Evil

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• I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Drink

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson (2008). “Crime and Punishment”, p.13, Oxford University Press

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• Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

  Saint Augustine

  Add, Walks, Stills

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• Zionists are the source of destructions, I wish I can fight against them.

  Mel Gibson

  Fighting, Destruction, Source

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• As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. But what we need to acknowledge is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

  Pema Chodron

  Reality, Taught Us, Enemy

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• I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production.

  George Orwell

  Book, Taken, Voice

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Love Is, Suffering

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• I've kind of gone from TV series to TV series or project to project, and I've wanted to get back in a rehearsal room. I feel like there's that exploration process, in a way, that you get in phases on jobs but I do wish I had that time [at school].

  Jenna Coleman

  Jobs, School, Rehearsal

  "The Time Traveling Actor". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 28, 2015.

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• I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.

  Tishuan Scott

  Agriculture, Recycling, Majors

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind of separates me from the common man in a way that I don't wish to be, so craftsperson makes me feel a bit more connected.

  Matana Roberts

  Nice, Artist, Men

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There are a lot I'm proud of, and a lot I wish the hell I'd never written.

  Rod Serling

  Proud, Hell, Written

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish it were more rough than it is.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Voice, Quality, Sound

  "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2016.

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• I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.

  Erol Alkan

  Brain, Painter, Surgeons

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

  Paul Allen

  Regret, Swim, Pacific

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When I met Quentin [Tarantino], he told me what every actor wishes from any director. He said, "I've been through a Demián Bichir marathon. I've watched everything you've done." Most of the time, they don't even know what you've done.

  Demian Bichir

  Directors, Actors, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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