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Quotes About Wishes

Thinking in a concentrated manner to define desired outcomes and requisite next actions is something few people feel they have to do (until they have to). But in truth, it is the most effective means available for making wishes a reality.
~ David Allen
She bit her lip, a movement he didn't see because he was getting out of the car. He poked his head back in. "Have a good life, Kate. You ever need anything
~ David Baldacci
i wish you way more than luck
~ David Foster Wallace
That her will and wishes had opposed my own just a little more. This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom, whereby quote the intensity of a desire D is inversely proportional to the ease of D's gratification. Known also as Romance.
~ David Foster Wallace
It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance
~ William Shakespeare
Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.
~ William Shakespeare
Wishes were ever fools
~ William Shakespeare
All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.
~ Winston Churchill
I wish your husband well and hope he'll come home again to domestic bliss.
~ Winston Graham
Amar es soñar con mares en mitad de un largo insomnio.
~ Xavier Velasco
If you make a wish and if you keep on making the same wish, it will be granted. That's how strong human wishes are.
~ CLAMP
All happiness and all unhappiness ... stems from one having a desire. And that is why mankind will always make their wishes.
~ CLAMP
All who make wishes are the same. When one wish comes into conflict with someone else's wish ... then one must make a choice. Either abandon one's own wish ... or crush the other's wish for the sake of your own.
~ CLAMP
If you want what visible reality can give, you're an employee. If you want the unseen world, you're not living your truth. Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is love's confusing joy.
~ Unknown
your dreams are not your aspirations and your wishes are not your dreams.
~ Unknown
I wanted everything good in the world for him; every dream he had, all of his secret plans, to come true. I suddenly was glad that Mona was his.
~ Hisham Matar
If wishes were horses , my mortal father used to say, beggars would ride .
~ Holly Black
Sometimes life gives us the terrible gift of our own wishes come true.
~ Holly Black
Looking for a weird old guy who could grant wishes was pathetic. It was sad and stupid.
~ Holly Black
maybe wishes do come true because this is family, this is what she never had, never knew, never dreamed, this is a moment so perfect and funny and this is her life now, just a string of perfect, funny moments one after the other, like a string of beads that will go on forever.
~ Liane Moriarty
She climbed, and climbed. The tower vibrated slightly, perhaps because its height made the wind a stroking hand upon its string. Half-heard cries, ragged whispers, soft slithering sounds echoed from the stone walls. The Speaking Tower, it was called, for here Summer could listen to the voices of her subjects, their wishes and fears seeping from rough mauve rock. The outside was white-and-greenstone, but the inside of the Speaking was a pink throat.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
Every man secretly wishes to die in battle, he just needs a cause to fight for.
~ Unknown
The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.
~ Unknown
The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid. "I've never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he's just ruined," he said sourly.
~ Lisa Kleypas