Wish You Quotes - Page 11

• I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Eye, Reflection

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

  Anne Lamott

  Risk, Secret, Wish

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• He [Ranger] stopped in front of my parents' house, and we both looked to the door. My mother and my grandmother were standing there, watching us. "I'm not sure I feel comfortable about the way your grandma looks at me," Ranger said. [Stephanie] "She wants to see you naked." "I wish you hadn't told me that, babe." "Everyone I know wants to see you naked." "And you?" "Never crossed my mind." I held my breath when I said it, and I hoped God wouldn't stike me down dead for lying.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Lying, Grandma

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.118, St. Martin's Press

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• No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.

  Jodi Picoult

  Miracle, Wish, Matter

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Oct 23, 2015

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• They will not be pleased. But they know we must catch the monsoon with a well-found ship; and they know they are in the Navy--they have chosen their cake, and must lie on it.' You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.' No, no, it is not quite that either. I mean--I wish you would not confuse my mind, Stephen.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Lying, Mean, Cake

  Patrick O'Brian (1991). “H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.204, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.

  Kate Braverman

  Tattoo, Children, Real

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• That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know." "Truly, I think that's best. Please take it." He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. "I'm giving you a piece of my mind." "I so wish you hadn't said that.

  Rachel Caine

  Thinking, Giving, Brain

  Rachel Caine (2008). “Feast of Fools: The Morganville Vampires”, p.132, Penguin

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• Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close out the filthiness, close out all light. Long to cast away yesterday, cast away memory, cast away all jeapordy. Pray you could somehow stop uncertainty, somehow stop the loathing, somehow stop the pain. Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Memories, Cutting

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

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• My daughter comes with me everywhere. I don't leave her behind. But it is hard. I mean, I think any working mother will tell you that what kind of falls by the wayside, you know, are the hours of sleep that you wish you had, and all that. I feel incredibly lucky and blessed, but I do sometimes feel like that exorcist lady!

  Kate Beckinsale

  Daughter, Mother, Blessed

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• Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they'll wish you the best and want only what's going to make you happy.

  Meagan Good

  Love You, Wish, Want

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• The more wishes you make, the more magnificent Fantasia will become.

  Tami Stronach

  Wish, Never Ending Story, Empresses

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• I want to wish you all luck with every bit of life you have ahead of you! Be strong. Be fearless. Be passionate.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Strong, Fearless, Luck

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• Youre always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully theyre all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadnt done on the first one.

  Keith Urban

  Wish, Different, Done

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• When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.

  Josh Hartnett

  Wish, Afar, Fantasy

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• Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Real, Wish

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• Birthday Wishes Are sent your way! To wish you Such Wonderful Day!

  Julie McGregor

  Birthday, Wish, Way

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• I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.

  Donald Hall

  Grief, Loss, Wish

  Donald Hall (2007). “White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cause there was a time when all I did was wish
  You'd tell me this was love.
  It's not the way I hoped
  Or how I planned
  But somehow it's enough.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Music, Wish, Way

  Song: Save the Best for Last, Album: The Comfort Zone

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• We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it. Perhaps now that the time has come, We are fearful that what you take will be lost.... I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success: His education, his skills, and society.

  Chief Dan George

  Beautiful, Taken, Native American

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• Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life.

  Laozi

  New Year, Happy Life, Years

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• I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

  Anthony Hope

  Ignorance, Poetry, Wish

  Dolly Dialogues (1894) no. 22

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• All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Political, Luck

  "Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba". Esquire, December 1934.

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• To all the haters out there I wish you the best. You can't bring me down. I wake up everyday grateful for the opportunity and grateful to the fans.

  Justin Bieber

  Hate, Grateful, Opportunity

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• God will not make you do something you don't want to do - He will just make you wish you had.

  Wayman Mitchell

  Discipline, Wish, Want

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