I Wish You Would Quotes:

I wish you would notice that you are heterosexual.

- Marilyn Frye

source: Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

topic: Wish, Heterosexuality, I Wish You Would

Can you deep fry the bacon? Oh how I wish you would.

- Greg Behrendt

topic: Wish, Wish You, I Wish You Would

But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.

- David Platt

topic: Wish, Looks, Care, I Wish You Would, Take Care Of Me

I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.

- Marilyn Frye

source: Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

topic: Understanding, Wish, Heterosexuality, I Wish You Would

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

- Anthony Hope

source: Dolly Dialogues (1894) no. 22

topic: Ignorance, Wish, Littles, I Wish You Would, Cramps

God wants a love partner, centering on the place where husband and wife become one through their sexual organs, God wants to appear and meet us...I wish you would center on the absolute sexual organ, unique sexual organ, unchanging sexual organ and eternal sexual organ and use this as your foundation to pursue God...We have to realize that the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven will begin on this foundation.

- Sun Myung Moon

topic: Husband, Unique, Wife, I Wish You Would, Centering

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

- Charlotte Lamb

topic: Understanding, Mind, Wish, I Wish You Would, Railway

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

- Tamora Pierce

source: Tamora Pierce (2009). “Alanna: The First Adventure”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fall, Tired, Wish, I Wish You Would, Getting Tired

I’ve heard Hillary complaining about so many different things over the years. "I wish you would have done this." But she’s been there for 30 years she’s been doing this stuff. She never changed. And she never will change. She never will change.

- Donald Trump

source: Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.cbsnews.com. October 10, 2016.

topic: Years, Wish, Different, I Wish You Would

The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: "Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects."

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Men, Wish, Tables, I Wish You Would, Dinner Table

I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

- Thomas Huxley

source: Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

topic: Fighting, Men, Wish, I Wish You Would, Wish You

I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!

- Tommy Dorsey

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Important, Wish, Dodge, I Wish You Would

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

topic: Lying, Mean, Cake, Monsoons, I Wish You Would

Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a desk telephone. "I am going to call the police, Miss Drew, and turn you over to them on a charge of trespassing, breaking, and entering with an attempt to steal." "I wish you would," Nancy replied. "if it is possible over that dummy telephone.

- Carolyn Keene

topic: Opposites, Missing, Silence, Dummy, I Wish You Would

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

- Samuel Johnson

source: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1868). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including His Tour to the Hebrides, Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, &c. With Numerous Additions”, p.273

topic: Wish, Add, May, I Wish You Would

You hung with me when all the others turned away, turned up their noses We liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we liked the same clothes Yeah we told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen Now I wish you would have told me, I wish I could have talked to you Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean.

- Bruce Springsteen

topic: Goodbye, Clothes, Wish, I Wish You Would

I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed sexuality and eroticism, as a way of breaking the grip of men on women's minds and women's bodies, of removing women from the chronic attachment to the primary situations of sexual and physical violence that is rained upon women by men, and as a way of promoting women's firm and reliable bonding against oppression. . . .

- Marilyn Frye

source: Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

topic: Men, Long, Feminist, I Wish You Would, Physical Violence

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

- Thomas Gainsborough

source: Letter to a patron, in John Hayes 'Thomas Gainsborough' (1980) p. 14

topic: Time, Oil, Enemy, Regularity, Oil And Vinegar

I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

topic: Children, Disappointment, Mean, Fondness, I Wish You Would

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

- Tony Kushner

topic: Confusing, Wish, Would Be, I Wish You Would