Quotes About Wishes

Later that night I met a Bulgarian. "In my country, you say to someone you hate, 'May you build a house from your kidney stones.'" Well, finally, I thought.

Nobody dreams of the things he already has.

That's the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they're nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted.

I met a Bulgarian. "In my country, you say to someone you hate, 'May you build a house from your kidney stones.

Don't get me wrong, I wish them the best. I just don't feel the need to see them again.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time.

It is so easy to be hopeful in the day time when you can see the things you wish on.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

There's all that we are and all that we wish to be.

Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.

I refuse to believe that we're going to go through life without something magical happening

Pru Harris's mom had taught her to make wishes on pink cars, falling leaves, and brass lamps, because wishing on something as ordinary as stars or wishing wells was a sign of no imagination. Clearly

Hey, maybe that's what she'd wish for—luck. She'd wish for better luck than she'd had: with family, with a job, with men— Well, maybe not men. Men she was giving up entirely.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative

We wished them happiness, we wished them health, we wished them love and luck and beautiful children. On that wedding day, July 26, 2003, we could see no reason to think that such ordinary blessings would not come their way. Do notice: We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.

We must be aware of the dangers which lie in our most generous wishes," Lionel Trilling once wrote. "Some paradox of our nature leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.")

Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you

If wishes were horses, beggers would ride

But I felt at that moment that if ever a place were in need of a little magic . . . Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes the impulse never quite leaves you.

Everyone wants to see a falling star and make all their wishes come true. My wish is to see only YOU, because you are the only star in my life.

Wishing you the best of times in your marriage. May your love bloom brighter and your marriage grow sweeter with each passing day. Congratulations on your marriage.

Wishing that your new life together will be filled with, happiness, joy and lots of love.

Wishing the two of you a beautiful life together.