Wish Quotes - page 94

I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found it so frightening to write. (Elizabeth George)
In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know. View quote
Elizabeth Kostova
Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another. View quote
Elizabeth Strout
It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive. View quote
Eleanor Catton
No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. View quote
Emily Giffin
i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves. View quote
Emily Giffin
In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance. View quote
Emily Giffin
People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see. View quote
Erin Morgenstern
Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors. View quote
Etgar Keret
It is of course a familiar precept that the teacher must try to arouse the interest of his pupils in all that he teaches. However, this precept is generally meant and understood to denote the idea that learning is the end and interest the means to attain it. I wish to reverse that relationship. Learning must serve the purpose of creating interest. Learning is transient, but interest must be lifelong. View quote
Johann Friedrich Herbart
I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops. (Candace Cameron)
I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody. View quote
Karin Slaughter
Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous. View quote
Caroline Knapp
But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
You & I are here but the wind is everywhere. Cast no words upon it you don't wish followed back to you. View quote
Karen Marie Moning
Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish. View quote
Katherine Applegate
I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected. View quote
Catherynne M. Valente
I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South. View quote
Kathryn Stockett
One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand. View quote
Kevin Kwan
People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards, but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same. View quote
Kevin Hart
We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others. (Clarissa Pinkola Estes)
When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, 'The Immortalists' - four siblings visit a fortune teller who is rumored to be able to tell anyone the date that they will die - I always wish I had a better answer. View quote
Chloe Benjamin
I do so wish my breasts would stop staring at your eyes. View quote
Kresley Cole
I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume. View quote
Chris Evans
I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't. View quote
Kristin Cashore