Quotes of: I-wish Keyword

She was the most beautiful creature he’d ever laid eyes upon, and for a moment, he wished he could keep her.

King's Kitten

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Shadow & Claw

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

Sisterhood Everlasting

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

Sing You Home

Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what you call your life.

The Solution

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

My Fair Godmother

Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give.

Mrs. Kimble

A witch so bold would not flinch, no matter how harsh her punishment might be, though his wish was for her to feel every strike.

The Mark

This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfere in everything, even in their daily quarrels with their wives.

The Nose

Sim sighed. "like Ross always said: Wish in one hand,shit in the other,and see which hand fills up first.

Ostrich Boys

Sometimes we live too much in the past, remembering what we wished had happened.

Like A Hammer:Poems 1990 - 1999

It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Language in Thought and Action

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

You can shit in one hand and wish in another and see which one gets full faster. Or... you can just take my word for it.

Legacy

Butch tightened his grip on his cell and wished there were an app that let you reach through a phone and bitch slap someone.

Lover Unleashed

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

Shadows on the Moon

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Science and Method

My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.

Survivor

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

Short Shorts