Quotes about wish

Moïra Fowley-Doyle - Spellbook of the Lost and Found

Be careful what you wish for Not all lost things should be found.

M.F. Moonzajer - A moment with God ; Poetry

I never wished something extraordinary you are more than everything.

M.F. Moonzajer -

Never wish a legendary love you don’t know who hard is to have a simple one.

Amber Garibay -

We were each of us trying trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman.

Jesus Christ -

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Julius Caesar -

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Martin Luther -

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Marie de France -

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

Horace -

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Cara Delevingne -

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

Louise Nurding -

I wish I was told to look after my teeth when I was younger. My smile is really important to me and one of my biggest assets, so I'm very conscious that I need to keep it in top condition.

Napoleon Bonaparte -

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Chely Wright -

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Luigi Pirandello -

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Mortimer Adler -

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

Carl Jung -

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi -

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gary Lineker -

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

Rachel McAdams -

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

Tom Hanks -

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

Charles Baudelaire -

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Rosie O'Donnell -

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

Jonathan Zittrain -

The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.

Louis XIV -

It is legal because I wish it.

Mary Wollstonecraft -

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Malcolm Boyd -

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

Tom Stoppard -

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

Toussaint Louverture -

I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

Aldous Huxley -

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Friedrich August von Hayek -

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

Dustin Lynch -

With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.

Hubert H. Humphrey -

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Simone de Beauvoir -

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Michael Jackson -

I just wish I could understand my father.

Garth Davis -

I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.

Rollo May -

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Epictetus -

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Wynton Marsalis -

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor

My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.

Fredrik Backman - Beartown

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

Isayama Hajime -

IF YOU WISH TO BRING PEACE UPON YOUR OWN, YOU MUST FIGHT THOSE WHO WISH FOR THE SAME PEACE.

Keith Gray - Ostrich Boys

Sim sighed. "like Ross always said: Wish in one hand,shit in the other,and see which hand fills up first.

Paul R. Timm -

An unrecorded goal is only a wish.

Deb Caletti - The Six Rules of Maybe

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

Isabel Allende - Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Children of Húrin

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

You don’t need a ball to play football; all you need is a strong wish! After then, you can use even a stone as a ball! For all other things you want to do, all you need is a strong wish!

Dele Olanubi via bealightinthedark -

I wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body.

Laurence Peter (1919—1990) -

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Stephanie Perkins - Anna and the French Kiss

We've stopped in front of Notre-Dame again. I point at the familiar star and clear my throat. "Wanna make another wish?""You go first." He's watching me, puzzled, like he's trying to figure something out. He bites his thumbnail.This time I can't help it. All day long, I've thought about it. Him. Our s

Sarah Weeks - Honey

For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.

Stephanie Perkins - Anna and the French Kiss

We'll be together. We both got our Point Zéro wishes — each other. He said he wished for me every time. He was wishing for me when I entered the tower.

Jonathan Friesen - Both of Me

Wanting and wishing are very different

Thomm Quackenbush - Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

My mother buys a handful of wishing beans, which just seem to be white, dry beans with no specific magickal import. She will parse these out over the months when she feels her family members most need a wish. She can believe in wishes, since it is the familiar magic of wells, birthdays, and first stars.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Never wish to be somebody. You never know what they are made up of.

Robert Jordan - The Shadow Rising

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

Lana Del Rey -

Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.

Gregory Maguire - Out of Oz

Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

David Guterson - The Other

As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, they're granted a wish by Jove. They confer in private before Philemon asks, "May one hour take us both away; let neither outlive the other." The wish is granted. I said, "Simultaneous deaths? Why didn't they wish for eternal happiness instead? What else would anyone wish for?" "They did wish for that," answered Jamie.

Philip Larkin -

I have wished you something None of the others would....

Munia Khan -

Wish I could be a fragile piece of glass to accept my brokenness.

Neymat Khan -

We all wish to live every moment of our life but its the death who gives us a surprise.

Courtney Kuchta -

If I could have just one wish,I would wish to wake up everydayto the sound of your breath on my neck,the warmth of your lips on my cheek,the touch of your fingers on my skin,and the feel of your heart beating with mine...Knowing that I could never find that feelingwith anyone other than you.

Jolene Stockman - The Jelly Bean Crisis

I wish I could take it all back, but I can’t. And I definitely can’t un-feel a feeling.

Pawan Mishra - Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.

Muhammad Imran Hasan -

If I Could Read The Last Page of My Life....

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force.

Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel's Chosen

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

Lailah Gifty Akita -

I only wish to read, think and write.

Phindiwe Nkosi - Behind the Hospital

I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.

Steven Redhead - The Solution

Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what you call your life.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

Kiss a frog with your eyes wide open. If he turns into a prince you won't miss the transformation, but if he doesn't, you won't be fooled by some wishful illusion in your head.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

To wish for the happiest days is to wish for a season of sorrow; for it is only after prolonged, wintry darkness that the summer sun appears to shine at its brightest.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.

Richelle E. Goodrich - The Tarishe Curse

I drifted off after a while, staring at the only star visible through the thick covering of leaves. Hope seemed a futile wish, but I troubled the lonely star to grant it anyway.

Pushpa Rana - Just the Way I Feel

There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine

Lauren Oliver - Before I Fall

If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up

Craig D. Lounsbrough - Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do.

T.F. Hodge -

A practice of giving [it] your best, means you don't just have to hope for it.

Anonymous -

Three simple rules in life: If you do not go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you do not ask, the answer will always be no. If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

If you love something, you find a way to have it in your life. Opposers may take away your means and tools, but you simply turn to crude replacements, fashioning them from scraps if necessary. Threats only make you steal moments of secrecy to satisfy your love. And if it means but a morsel here and there, you accept each crumb gladly because nothing else can even begin to satisfy your hunger.

Warren Zevon - Reconsider Me: The Love Songs

You used to be the best to make life be real to me,and I hope that you're still out there and you're like you used to be

Quetzal -

The little boy who never grew up,He trapped the frog and kills the rat,He flew a kite, the little boy who never grew up,He found a dream and took it homeThe little boy who never grew up,He planted his dream deep in his heart,The little boy who never grew up,He watered his dream, wishing his dream to bloom,The little boy who never grew up,The dream died, the dream drowned,The little boy who never grew up, Watered his dream too much, His dream died, the little boy cried,The little boy who never gr

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

If you wish for it, you can have it.

S.A. Tawks - Misadventurous

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

Munia Khan -

In my dreams I am sleepingI am sleeping in my dreamsI wish to dream in my sleepJust wish to dream in my sleep.

Joe Mari Fadrigalan -

Fly beyond infinities.

Andres - Încă o dorinţă

To walk alone through life is a challenge; it sometime means adrenaline and a path full of surprises, but being with somebody means a lot more. And being with the right person means everything.

Magica Quartet - Vol. 01

Miki-san... do you truly want that person's dream to come true? Or is it that you want to be that person's savior for making that dream come true? If you're going to fulfill someone else's dream, that's the time when it's most important to be sure you know your own wish. The two might seem the same, but they're entirely different.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

You can have, what wish for.

Munia Khan -

Our mistakes would not wish for anything more, if we could just stop giving birth to them.

Jessica Khoury - The Forbidden Wish

The will of this boy thief flows in golden streams. It is the thread with which I weave, the colors with which I paint, the element with which I create.

Terry Pratchett - Witches Abroad

Haven’t you got any romance in your soul?’ said Magrat plaintively. ‘No,’ said Granny. 'I ain’t. And stars don’t care what you wish, and magic don’t make things better, and no one doesn’t get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What’s real, what’s not real, and what’s the difference.

Tagor Manroo -

Some people say the rain with no purpose and others say with memories and wishes

Gugu Mona -

It is for a specific reason that you were born from that specific place. Never wish that away because it's not where you were born that matters, but who you were born to be. Jesus was born on the kraal and He became a King of Kings.

Steven Redhead - Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind

Create or attract through focused desire the things you wish for in life.

Roman Payne -

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.

S.L. Whyte - Stelladaur: Finding Tir Na Nog

A wish becomes a greatest desire at the very moment when a person's belief in the seemingly impossible is stronger than any doubt.-Kevin McNamara