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“I wish that I knew the importance of having a regular mammogram, as early detection offers better treatment options and a better quality of life. I ignored the warning signs of the lump underneath my right arm when I discovered it in September 2006 and didn't seek medical attention until March 2007. By then, I was experiencing a late stage of breast cancer that forever changed my life.”

Wish Attention Quality Forever Changed Importance Cancer Medical March September Ignored Quality Of Life Breast Cancer Changed My Life

Author:Thelma Jones

“I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger”

Knows Wish Stronger

Author:Rod Stewart

“I wish that I myself did have faith in God, that I had a religion, sometimes. But not always.”

Sometimes Wish Have Faith Faith In God Have Faith In God

Author:Hutch Harris

“I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.”

Thinking Language Wish Window Spokes

Author:El Anatsui

“I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.”

Wells Enough Speak Language Wish Difficult Couple Spokes Difficult Things

Author:Jodie Foster

“I wish that I was dead. Oh, they'll be sorry then. I hate them and I'll kill myself tomorrow. I want to die. I hate them, hate them. Hate.”

Want Hate Dies Wish Tomorrow I Hate Sorry Suicidal Wanting To Die I Want To Die

Author:Vernon Scannell

“I wish that I was looking into your eyes”

Eye Wish

Author:Katy Perry

“I wish that I was where I am.”

Wish Self Esteem Esteem Self Respect

Author:Gertrude Stein

“I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.”

Wish Comedy Serious Odd Heels Mixtures High Heels

Author:Alice Eve

“I wish that in the course of my visit to places the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] calls home, all of a sudden, we would reach a clear understanding on how we can resolve the matters. We will be very glad if that happens. Are there any chances? Perhaps.”

Ifs Matter Home Happens Courses Wish Understanding Chance Clear Glad Ministers Resolve Prime Prime Minister Abe

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.”

Life Should Wish Century Mindfulness Sacred Loaded

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

“I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.”

“I wish that men got endometriosis. If it was painful when they ejaculated, you know they would find a cure immediately and every doctor would know what to do to make it less painful, even a foot doctor.”

Healthcare Womens Health Endometriosis I Curse You With Joy Tiffany Haddish

Author:Tiffany Haddish

Source: I Curse You With Joy

“I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.”

Men Giving Young Wish Giving Up Gun Cameras Young Man Favour Vegetarianism Adventurous

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“I wish that my life could be like the movies, like Bonnie and Clyde or The Hunger or Harold and Maude. And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.”

Persons Wish Hunger Fearless

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method gives only mediocre results; some recent examples demonstrate that. The American authors, who love to do things big, often publish experiments that have been conducted on hundreds and thousands of people; they instinctively obey the prejudice that the persuasiveness of a work is proportional to the number of observations. This is only an illusion.”

“I wish that our culture could retain the symbolism and emotional power of traditional religion while combining it with reason and science and using the combination to enhance our humanity rather than impoverishing it by choosing the one side or the other.”

Reason Humanity Culture Wish Sides Emotional Traditional Combination Symbolism Combining Emotional Power

Author:Allen W. Wood

“I wish that people could love more.”

People Wish

Author:Akiane Kramarik

“I wish that people had an opportunity to watch me 24/7, like on 'Big Brother.' You'd see a person who is quiet and reserved and very analytical - a huge observer.”

People Persons Bigs Opportunity Wish Watches Brother Huge Quiet Observers Reserved Watch Me

Author:Ndamukong Suh

“I wish that people knew that anyone can file a frivolous lawsuit with false claims as well. I hate that the court of public opinion always weighs in on it without any facts or substantial evidence. People want to validate their hate toward others so much that this has become the norm.”

Relationships Opinion Honor Lies Deception Gossip Liar Dishonest

Author:Niedria Kenny

Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“I wish that people realized how this felt every day. Why does it take a life ending to learn how to cherish each day? Why must we wait until we run out of time to start to accomplish all that we dreamed, when once we had all the time in the world? Why don’t we look at the person we love the most like it’s the last time we will ever see them? Because if we did, life would be so vibrant. Life would be so truly and completely lived.”

Inspirational Quotes Inspirational Life Inspirational Love Inpirational Attitude

Author:Tillie Cole

Source: A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency."”

People Life Littles Fighting Wish Common Please Breakup Decency Love Each Other Slapstick Common Decency

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

Source: Slapstick or Lonesome No More

“I wish that people would take the time to show people that they are important in their lives, either at work, or at home. Too many times people take others for granted, and I think that needs to change. People are so much nicer and willing to help you if you use those two little words that mean so much . . . 'Thank You!'”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Mean Littles Two Important Helping Use Shows Home Wish Change Willing Granted Need A Change

Author:Gina Gillespie

“I wish that person were real. I wish he existed somewhere other than my memories.”

Sad Depressed

Author:Victoria Aveyard

Source: Glass Sword

“I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.”

Thinking World Made Wish Interesting Shots Outrageous Interesting Places

Author:Steven Morrissey

“I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.”

Real Wish

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I wish that restaurateurs would choose simpler and smaller glassware. The tables on restaurants these days are way too crowded, and mostly because the plates are too odd looking and big, and the wine glasses are so gigantic that it takes up the whole surface area and you can't move. I prefer smaller glassware.”

Way Whole Bigs Moving Wish Areas Tables Wine Glasses Surface These Days Odd Restaurants Plates Crowded Wine Glass

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

“I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.”

Thinking Littles Different Turns Wish Black Groups Fortunate Old Lady Different Times Nina

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.”

People Way Self Feelings Found Wish Millions Cost Ordinary Add Environmental Relative Righteous Ordinary People Handful Self Righteous Staggering

Author:Thomas Sowell

“I wish that somehow, some way we could learn to live together in this country.”

Country Together Wish

Author:Shirley Sherrod

“I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.”

Feels Littles Said Lost Wish Normal Funny Graduation

Author:Ira Glass

“I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting.”

People Thinking Wish Interesting Bored Desks Something Interesting

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.”

Men Mind Heart Wish Grows Angry Mortals Smoke Honey Strife Great Minds Dripping Swarms Iliad Fate In The Iliad Rage From The Iliad Achilles Fate

Author:Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.”

Wish Television Hatred Selling Our Love Seducing

Author:Dan Harmon

“I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.”

Book Wish Nerves Publishing

Author:Charlie Huston

“I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.”

People Writing Children Book Young Literature Wish Powerful Adults Children's Literature

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.”

Believe Art Enough Happens Artist Wish Keep Going Enough Time Whatever Happens

Author:Ben Whishaw

“I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.”

Littles Shows Bigs Light Used Wish Felt Animal Missing Used To Be Canvas Elegant Circus Tents Hay Sawdust

Author:Francis Lawrence

“I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.”

Real Wish Social Effort Issues Security Taxes Democrat Immigration Reform Illegal Social Security Reformation Illegal Immigration Tax Reform

Author:Jack Kingston

“I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.”

People Thinking Wish Clear Hero Deeds

Author:Terry Pratchett

Source: The Carpet People

“I wish that there was a unified Democratic position on the war in Iraq. I was that there was a unified American position and everybody agreed with me that we ought to be out of there yesterday. But they don't, and that's the fact. I mean, he's stating a fact about what's going on.”

Mean War Facts Wish Position Ought Democratic Iraq Yesterday Unified

Author:Howard Dean

“I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.”

Law Wish Gun Harder

Author:Rosie O'Donnell

“I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat”

Knows Way Country Play Able Wish Boat

Author:Rafael Palmeiro

“I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.”

Knows Play Games Strong Wish Sports Baseball Very Strong Cuba Korean Baseball History

Author:Rafael Palmeiro

“I wish that those who believe in the doctrines of grace would be more gracious. That's all I'd say... I'm an evangelical. I believe the doctrines of grace.”

Believe Would Be I Believe Wish Grace Doctrine Gracious Evangelical

Author:Rick Warren

“I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.”

Thinking Looks Children Self Eye Faces Wish Upbringing

Author:Maya Angelou

“I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.”

Happens Wish Minutes Hockey Shrinks Dryers

Author:Bob Hartley

“I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.”

Life Is Wish Magic Wave Hey Wands Magic Wands

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I wish that we had much more of the Spirit of Christ and a great deal less self, and less of human opinions. If we err, let it be on the side of mercy rather than on the side of condemnation and harsh dealing.”

Ifs Humans Self Spirit Wish Sides Christ Deals Opinion Mercy Harsh Condemnation

Author:Ellen G. White

“I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the church they will instantly sense that they have come among holy people, God's people. They can testify, 'Of a truth God is in this place'”

People Might Wish Church Holy Worship Get Back

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

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