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Quotes About Wishes

Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her, and inscribed by the hand of the poet himself: 'For her whose wishes must be obeyed' ... 'The happier Helen of our day' ... disgraceful to say, she had never read them.
~ Virginia Woolf
But to know that one might have things doesn't alter the fact that one hasn't got them
~ Virginia Woolf
Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.
~ Langston Hughes
Donde quiera que estés, Belicia, deseo que ya no sufras ni llores nunca más. Donde quiera que estés, amiga mía... hermana... deseo que encuentres la felicidad que mereces.
~ Laura Gallego García
Shooting stars are not really stars at all but meteorites, burning their way through our atmosphere, sometimes landing in the oceans and in the middle of farms...you could make wishes on them if you like, but they are really just pieces of rock falling down from the sky, and they could land on your head and kill you just as you look up to make a wish. Really, they're just rocks. They don't care about your wishes at all.
~ Laura Moriarty
If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
~ Charles Barkley
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
A merry Christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world
~ Charles Dickens
So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!
~ Charles Dickens
I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.
~ Charles Dickens
If wishes would prevail with me, My purpose should not fail with me...
~ William Shakespeare, Henry V
May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!
~ Grandpa Jones
If wishes were teardrops the world would flood.
~ Greg Keyes
may you live as long as you want to and want to as long as you live.
~ Gretta Mulrooney
He had suddenly come to realize a single facet of the promised jewel; he had Time, Time for everything that he wished to happen, such Time that desire itself was quenched in the certainty of fulfillment.
~ James Hilton
Well, Tommy, he said, I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you. And that's the wish of a sincere friend, an old friend. You know that?
~ James Joyce
I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you.
~ James Joyce
I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you. And that's the wish of a sincere friend, an old friend.
~ James Joyce
Nos voeux de bonheur profonds et sincères. Beaucoup d'amour et une santé de fer. Un joyeux anniversaire!
~ James Patterson
we have a Gene-IE to grant us wishes," he said. Darlene brushed past in her white coat. To my surprise, Eliza was at the computer desk behind the lab door and looked up at me. "You took your time," she said with a glint in her green eyes. "Leaving us to do all the work." I had an overwhelming urge to hug her, which I didn't fight. She responded very tightly, then slowly broke away. "What are you doing standing
~ James Patterson
Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)
~ Paul Tobin, Prepare to Die!
just in case you're not around next year: happy birthday.
~ Thomas Ligotti
If there were dreams to sell,What would you buy?Some cost a passing-bell;Some a light sigh.
~ Thomas Lovell Beddoes
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
~ Thomas Lovell Beddoes