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Wish Quotes (page 50)

John Adams quote: "I wish I could lay down beside her and die too."
I wish I could lay down beside her and die too. John Adams
Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without... Rainer Maria Rilke
Dualism:: In Ralph Ellison's Invisible ManI am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage. i am outside of history. its hungrier than i thot. Ishmael Reed
Cornelia Funke quote: "He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature..."
He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish. Cornelia Funke
Jane Austen quote: "To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect"
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect Jane Austen
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live us many more lives and as many kind of lives as we wish. S. I. Hayakawa
[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of. Paul Auster
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to..."
If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine. P. G. Wodehouse
Yes,' said Catherine, stroking his long soft hair, 'if I could only get papa's consent, I'd spend half my time with you - Pretty Linton! I wish you were my brother.' 'And then you would like me as well as your father?' observed he more cheerfully. 'But papa says you would love me better than him, and all the world, if you were my wife-so I'd rather you were that!' 'No! I should never love anybody better than papa,' she returned gravely. 'And people hate their wives, sometimes; but not their... Emily Bronte
the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want. Terry Prachett
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? Kazuo Ishiguro
...if you wish to tell me what crime I have committed, explain to me in what a crime consists. For as my conscience does not accuse me, I aver that I am not a criminal. Alexander Dumas
Mitch Albom quote: "There are many things in my life that I wish I could take..."
There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast. Mitch Albom
Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense gratefulness for those who love me, some strong wish to love them also. I am full of thanks for life. I have not told myself to be thankful. I am just so. Alan Paton
Georgia O'Keeffe quote: "I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then."
I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then. Georgia O'Keeffe

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