Quotes About Wishes

For to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy goal.

I listened to time clicking like hooves on pavement. But time isn't something you can rein in. It moves on without pause, taking us with it no matter how much we wish it otherwise.

Quando o Pereba chegou, eu enchi os copos e disse, que o próximo ano seja melhor. Feliz Ano Novo.

Well, I believe in miracles, so it comes to

No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.

Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.

Our lives show the accumulation of all of our varied wishes. Wanting something with all your heart will begin to slough away all of your untrue and idle wishes. Success comes from an undivided heart.

She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past.

Let her wake as when she close her eyes. That was all Jenny asked for. That was all she begged for on this March night that was perfectly equal to the day, unique in all the season. Let her be the same sweet girl, unburdened by gifts or sorrow.

She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. But none of that happened.

Remind customers they must be careful what they wish for, Isabelle instructed. What's done cannot be undone. What's set into motion takes on a life of its own.

They both always wished for the same thing when they were sitting on the roof of the aunts' house on those hot, lonely nights. Sometime in the future, when they were both all grown up, they wanted to look up at the stars and not be afraid. This is the night they had wished for. This is that future, right now. And they can stay out as long as they want to, they can remain on the lawn until every star has faded, and still be there to watch the perfect blue sky at noon.

I wish you all a long and happy life

This little girl's grown up by now, she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.

Halle thinks your imagination is something you can put on like a jacket or pick up like a spoon—but Sam's imagination is private! You don't use your actual imagination for homework. It's like telling wishes.

I remember fantasies of finding notes in old bottles washed ashore. I remember magic carpets and giant "genies" and trying to figure out what my three wishes would be. I remember not understanding why Cinderella didn't just pack up and leave, if thins were really all that bad. I remember getting a car door slammed on my finger once, and how long it took for the pain to come. I remember wondering if goats really do eat tin cans.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

I treat my little heart like a sick child: whatever it wishes for is granted.

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.

The purpose of life is to live your dreams, you should never smother your wishes.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

I wish you all a long and happy life

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.