Quotes About Wishes

If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.

And her words, there is only love, passed like prayer-bead wishes on a thread of possibility as the music and laughter crashed around me.

Das ist das Problem mit Wünschen, Herr Schwartz. Nur die falschen gehen sofort in Erfüllung.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes twist everything. You are so sure you know what the promise promised! And the danger is that when what He means by 'wind' appears you will ignore it because it is not what you thought it would be—as He Himself was rejected because He was not like the Messiah the Jews had in mind.

Sometimes it's enough just to know that if you believe hard enough and long enough, your wishes can come true.

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been. - Victor Frankenstein.

Happy are dreamers, he continued, so that they be not awakened! Would I could dream!

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

There are truths greater than our own wishes.

The biological and moral realities - to say nothing of Go's own plan, whatever it may be - do not change with our own wishes.... a person is a person just as a dog is a dog, a deer a deer, a pig a pig, and so on through the animal kingdom. And either they suffer or they do not suffer.

Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men.

his convictions to the wishes of others, be it the whole

Ideological fixation is the result of the ever-present tensions and conflicts between our normative wishes and interpretation of reality.

there's a direct link between doing your work and having your wishes come true.

The advice that you must change your environment—for example, by eliminating negative people and news—is an admission that there may in fact be a "real world" out there that is utterly unaffected by our wishes.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.

If wishes were horses, like they say. We'd all have different shit to shovel.

I'd give anything to have stayed home. If wishes were horses, like they say. We'd all have different shit to shovel.

I hope I can make or across the border. I hope the pacific is as blue as it is in my dreams. I hope I get to see my friend. I hope...