Quotes About Wishes

Aware that there was talk of making him a candidate in the presidential election of 1880, Garfield hoped to avoid the grasp of other men's ambitions and to be given a chance to wait for the future. However, he had already lived a long life for a young man and he knew that change came without invitation. Too often bringing loss and sorrow in its wake. This world, he had learned long before, does not seem to be the place to carry out ones' wishes.

I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out

I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.

I don't believe in wishes coming true. But if I do, what would I wish for? Normally I have such willpower. Like a dieter resisting a cookie, I don't even let myself go there. But for the briefest second, I do.

Don't take this the wrong way,but I hope you get stabbed again.Like,real soon.I loved kissing you all better.

But wishes don't make policy. Policy is made by reality, and the reality of what has been created, whether intentionally or not, can't be abandoned without breathtakingly severe consequences.

He stepped away from me. His gaze was impossible to hold. "Okay. I hear you. Be careful what you wish for, Princess.

Mr. Ramirez looked at Sean and me one last time and smiled. "Good luck with your jogging." No. He didn't just wish Sean and I happy jogging.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

Por las tardes salía de la mano de mi madre a ver la puesta de sol desde las rocas. Esperábamos para formular un deseo, atentas al último rayo verde que surgía como una llamita en el instante preciso en que el sol desaparecía en el horizonte.

I look at my gorgeous girl and boy, with their incredible zest for life, and I count my undoubted blessings. But there's no question about it: I wish I'd started my family sooner. Much much sooner.

A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distin-quished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

This one makes a net, this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet which one gets the fishes?

I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.

Who chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before.

It's a matter of logical structure: what is, just is, and any claim about what ought to be is a claim about our own wishes and desires. Why ever should we imagine that the two would be related?

Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.

Sometimes what wishes do...especially the big, big wishes, is churn up all the confusion and longing that sloshes around forever inside of you.