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Quotes About Wishes

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.
~ W. H. Auden
Somewhere over the rainbowBluebirds fly.Birds fly over the rainbow—Why then, oh why can't I?
~ E. Y. Harburg
The entity may in the present find a great joy; as well as an outlet for the determining forces or wishes or desires—that are, like thoughts, things; that may grow to be either miracles—those things through which miracles may come into the experience of self and those with whom the associations may be had—or become stumbling-stones to self and as mountains in the pathway of those whom the entity may contact.
~ Edgar Cayce
Adieu, adieu, kind friends, adieu, adieu, adieu,I can no longer stay with you.I'll hang my harp on a weeping willow-tree,And may the world go well with thee.
~ Anonymous
If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola.
~ Anonymous
I'm sending luck and wishes All wrapped up in a hug Good things should come your way With this tiny ladybug.
~ Anonymous
Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.
~ Anonymous
Bayern fulfilled every wish, no matter what Guardiola wanted: the players, the coaches, and even the doctors. He caused much disturbance off the field. But he is one of the best coaches on the planet.
~ Lothar Matthaus
There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for three purposes, to heal, bless or prosper. What man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for himself.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Am I the same cold, ragged damp Sara? And to think I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were fairies! The one thing I always wanted was to see a fairy story come true. I am living in a fairy story. I feel as if I might be a fairy myself, and able to turn things into anything else.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
The wishes might not come true the way you think they will, not everything will be perfect, but love will come because it always does, because why else would it exist and it will make everything hurt a little less. You just have to believe in yourself.
~ Francesca Lia Block
TO THE LADY JESSICA- May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. My kindest wishes, MARGOT LADY FENRING
~ Frank Herbert
Se desejos fossem peixes, todos nós lançaríamos as redes.
~ Frank Herbert
A victory is useless unless it reflects your deepest wishes.
~ Frank Herbert
If wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets.
~ Frank Herbert
If wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets," he murmured.
~ Frank Herbert
If wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets," he murmured. It was his mother's expression and he always used it when he felt the blackness of tomorrow on him. Then he thought what an odd expression that was to be taking to a planet that had never known seas or fishes.
~ Frank Herbert
I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.
~ Paul Oakenfold
It didn't work but I always wish her the best. I'm really proud of her. Thee Megan I know and thee Megan ya'll know are two different things. It's still love, we just didn't see eye to eye.
~ Moneybagg Yo
For the girl who secretly hoped she'd get a Hogwarts letter - For the girl who makes wishes on every 11:11 - For the girl who ran out of space on her bookshelves and bought this book anyway
~ Robyn Schneider
I dreamed instead of did. I wished and hoped instead of tried.
~ Rod Serling
You are far too well informed a man to pretend that you don't know what little game you are playing. If you have presentiments of death, it is because of certain wishes. You desire to escape sexual impotence - impotence, in short - and you wish for death to save you from all that. It is one of the virility's favorite ploys.
~ Romain Gary
Stars were caught in the tree branches. She wished she could keep stars in her pocket, just to give him every time she saw him.
~ Luanne Rice
The mention of college gave a new direction to Gilbert's thoughts, and they talked for a time of their plans and wishes... gravely, earnestly, hopefully, as youth loves to talk, while the future is yet an untrodden path full of wonderful possibilities.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery