I Quotes
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“I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the bigger picture, I don't feel that it was violent and terrible. I feel like it was primarily--obviously not completely--moral, based on a vision that the government should be better, and that people could be better, and that democracy should be real.”
“I wish I could take it all back, but I can’t. And I definitely can’t un-feel a feeling.”
Source: The Jelly Bean Crisis
“I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on your wrists. 'There, there,' my words would say - Or something better. I would ask them to murmur, 'Hush' and 'Shh, shhh, it's all right.' I would ask them to hold you all night. I wish I could take language And daub and soothe and cool Where fever blisters and burns, Where fever turns yourself against you. I wish I could take language And heal the words that were the wounds You have no names for.”
“I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head,” Winslow said. “Just for a moment. Then you’d know what all I can’t find how to say.”
Source: Volt
“I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other.”
“I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything.”
“I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.”
Source: Second Glance: A Novel
“I wish I could tell him that we’re going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like I’m supposed to. But the idea of admitting that I need help is too much to bear, so I turn away.”
Source: Divergent
“I wish I could tell my parents, " If you want to help me, help me die.”
“I wish I could tell people what I'm directing next, but I can't.”
“I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called islands. Coconut palms nodding gracefully toward the ocean. Reefs upon which waves broke into spray, and inner lagoons, lovely beyond description. I wish I could tell you about the sweating jungle, the full moon rising behind the volcanoes, and the waiting. The waiting. The timeless, repetitive waiting.”
“I wish I could tell you all about it”
Source: ギヴン 2 [Given 2]
“I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.”
“I wish I could tell you how much your silence means to me.
It's like I find my heart sinking at the mere thought of your numbness.
I wish I could tell you how much I want to speak to you, to know you, to breathe in all of you, to tell you how I would paint my sky with the stardust of your soul.
I wish I could tell you how much I want to wash away all your frozen tears and choking words and give you all my light just to see a smile on your heart.
I wish I could tell you how much I want to hold you in my arms and together we could melt in our own world of dreams.
I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me, in this mad world of harrowing voices I love your soulful silences that keep comforting me in so many ways.
And even when you are always the listener while I am the outspoken one, I wish I could tell you all of this and yet I find no word good enough to pour my soul out only to find that you know it already.”
“I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn't get better. YOU get better.”
“I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.”
“I wish I could tell you that all the comfort and luxuries in the world are a sign of progress, but they are not - they are a sign of disparities - and these disparities can only go away with our sacrifice - with the sacrifice of the humanitarians - some must give all, all must give some, only then will there be actual civilized, sane, healthy and whole progress - progress that includes all of humanity, not just the privileged few.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“I wish I could tell you that free and easy access to this information solves these problems. It doesn’t. People find their own wells of poison to drink from.”
“I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.”
“I wish I could tell you the recipe for figuring out who the target user is for your product and who your users should be, but... there isn't a recipe. It comes down to think really hard and use your judgement to figure out who you're really building this for.”
“I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it is true, but also a brain and also a soul. I've come to believe that we love with our brains as much as our hearts. Real Love is not just instinct, but intent...... From year to year, you may not always be the same Jane. This is perfectly normal. A Jane is many Janes in a lifetime.”
“I wish I could think of a positive point to leave you with. Will you take two negative points?”
“I wish i Could throw a stone high in the air, keep looking at that and never want it to come back or disappear. that is just what our life is we want it to stay high and never come to an end. On the other hand we dont work that much for it”
“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”
“I wish I could travel back in time, not to feel younger or change the course of history and bring us back together, but to re-live every precious moment we had, over and over.”
“I wish I could turn back the time and rewrite some chapters, relive, replace and remove some evil characters! Lyrics from the song THE STOLEN YEARS written by Lily Amis”
“I wish I could turn back time, but I can't. I made a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible, and I'll pay for it the rest of my life.”
Source: Return to Paradise
“I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.”
“I wish I could've
done for you what
time has.”
Source: Post-Millennium Rhapsody
“I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time...we push forward. It's all we can do.”
Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 21
“I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.”
“I wish I could visit the moon.”
Source: Bryla's Amazing Imagination: Bryla Visits the Moon
“I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.”
“I wish I could wear 10 dresses to my wedding. It's so sad that you put it in storage and then never see it again. I am going to sleep in mine after I wear it.”
“I wish I could wear clothes straight off the runway.”
“I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending . . .”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.”
“I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it much more highly than any business success if I could contribute to an understanding of the world in which we live or, better yet, if I could help to preserve the economic and political system that has allowed me to flourish as a participant.”
“I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galleries and museums takes up nearly all my time.”
“I wish I could write an elegy for my sadness
because it has suddenly died.”
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
“I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.”
“I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.”
Source: Letters
“I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.”
“I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.”
“I wish I could write solely from imagination, but then I would not have a story to write. I need to produce the story in the real world, live it out, push it forward, watch it unfold, again and again, until it ends or I end it.”
“I wish I could write their individual stories in the book of our lives with indelible ink, because we cannot compel the world to share our affliction, but we still have the duty to honour our dead.
Tina said it: all it takes is for one person, just one, to burst into grief for the others to take up the song of mourning. That is our mission. That is our duty as survivors. We are all survivors in this country, to varying degrees. To survivors, the Lord, in His languid Mercy, grants unending years of contrition. This, at least, is necessary; otherwise, where would the salty water in the oceans come from?”
Source: Days Come and Go
“I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.”
Source: Selected Letters, 1917-1961
“I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.”
“I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.”
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)