Quotes About Wishes

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Wherever you end up, I wish you clear skies. Always.

In a few hours I'm going to be eleven. That's a whole new decade…I have fifteen kids coming here tomorrow night. That's fifteen friends who chose to come to my party instead of Leo's. Even if I'll be stuck wearing a Dorothy costume, I'm going to try to have a good time. After all, like Mom said, I'm only going to turn eleven once. I just wish I wasn't doing it alone.

It was only later that she would remember that the truth did not always set you free. And that you had to be careful what you wished for, because you might actually get it.

I hope life treats you kind And I hope you have all you've dreamed of And I wish to you joy and happiness But above all this, I wish you love

The failures of forecasting in these cases reflect the customers' inability to imagine how much their wishes will escalate over time. They end up paying much more than they would if they had made a realistic plan and stuck to it.

one needed to be careful what one wished for.

He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true.

He thought she hung the moon. He actually believed this from time to time. He believed the moon wouldn't have been there but that she'd hung it. He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true. For her, his daughter. He had told her this when she was little to make her happy, and now that he was old he believed it, because it made him happy and because he was so very old. He

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

If wishes were horses, there would be an easy explanation for all this horseshit

Dios quiere y puede concedernos nuestros deseos más profundos que tienen "motivos puros".

The final wishes of an atheist are ultimately meaningless. I mean, I would like to be cremated after any salvageable organs have been donated to right-wing Republicans and religious fundamentalists because I'm really not bitter after all). But ultimately it isn't my concern

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.

Keep hoping to rub the genie's lamp maybe you get lucky

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep. Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night.

Dreams are free.

She'd never stopped for a moment wanting me to be different but her wishes were never going to come true.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

Beaucoup de gens se plaignent de n'avoir pas ceci ou cela ; mais la cause en est toujours qu'ils ne l'ont point vraiment désiré.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation started with one wish out of Phoenix, Arizona, and the organization has grown so grand ever since.