Quotes About Wish

Dost thou wish me to complete the catalogue by thy death? Thy life is a worthless thing. Tempt me no more. I am but a man, and thy presence may awaken a fury which may spurn my control. Begone!

Lack creates desire. I feel becoming it. (Le manque crée le désir. Je sens le devenir)

Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly?

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.

It will do her no good to keep herself concealed from me at this moment," said Madame Defarge. "Good patriots will know what that means. Let me see her. Go tell her that I wish to see her. Do you hear?

I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire

I wish I had died. I wish I had died then, with that feeling in my heart! I should have been more fit for heaven than I ever have been since.

If you will hear me through a very little more, all you can ever do for me is done. I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Barkis suspira.

I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.

I dropped an olive into the martini like making a green wish.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

It me birthday and nobody came...Bigfoot decide do something nice for self for big day and sneak in they house at night and pick out own present and blow out flickering candle of life in they brains. Make a wish, jerks.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any cause.

We are the total of our longings [...]

He lived for the sea and his one wish was that he would not die on dry land.

I'm convinced that most people don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe.

I'm convinced that most people don't know what the hell they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe.

An analytic colleague, Alden Josey, once employed the telling metaphor that secretly "we wish to colonize the other," and like most imperial powers, we are flush with rationalizations to justify our agendas of self-interest.

If anyone thinks that I amn't divine He'll get no free drinks when I'm making the wine But have to drink water and wish it were plain That I make when the wine becomes water again.

Why was the host (victim predestined) sad? He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him should by him not be told.