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Quotes About Wish

I wish I had all the answers," he said. "Like knowing the mind of God. I'd love to get in on that.
~ James Lee Burke
You can't change the past and you can't do aught but rue the way you sometimes acted back when you were young and stupid and thought you were immortal. Doesn't prevent you from wishing you could.
~ James Lovegrove
Your fugitive Jedi, my apprentice, Sidious said. They are traveling to Kashyyyk. He tipped his head to one side. Perhaps, Lord Vader, they hope to lay a trap for you. Vader clenched his hands. That would be my most fervent wish, my Master. Sidious clamped his hands on Vader's upper arms. Then go to them, Lord Vader. Make them sorry they didn't hide while they had the chance!
~ James Luceno
I picked a star and wished as hard as i could that somehow i could protect him from what was on the horizon
~ James Patterson
wanted a toilet
~ James Patterson
Dreams don't have anything to do with wish fulfillment. They're more like—well, like your mind takes a giant dump every night, and the result is a bunch of weird, nonsensical stories that happen to you while you're sleeping
~ James Patterson
I personally hope and wish that Britain will stay part and parcel of the European Union.
~ Angela Merkel
I have had such a unique experience in the game. I got to experience the best of my craft, and I did that multiple times. There is nothing more I wish I could experience.
~ Maya Moore
My brother died when he was 19, so a part of me indulges and thinks that some part of him that made him uniquely him is out there, on another plane. So inventing the fictional afterlife in 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' was a way of making that wish real.
~ Jesmyn Ward
They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.
~ Henry Knox
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
~ Josh Billings
Honestly, I always wanted to be a star. It's a dream.
~ Nivin Pauly
I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.
~ Thomas Gold
If there were dreams to sell,... Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rang the bell, What would you buy?
~ Thomas Lovell Beddoes
as a man predicts ill, he becomes inclined to wish it. The pride of having his judgment right hardens his heart, till at last he beholds with satisfaction, or sees with disappointment, the accomplishment or failure of his predictions.
~ Thomas Paine
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
~ Thornton Wilder
It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
~ Thornton Wilder
The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?
~ Eric Roth
A dream is better than obligation.
~ Riyad Mahrez
I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.
~ Minoru Yamasaki
Desire turns us into ghosts
~ Octavio Paz
A person could wish for one thing and speak of another, and their fate, their kismet, was the thing that could bring the two together.
~ Orhan Pamuk
it is always what we want, not what we have, that claims our attention.
~ Orison Swett Marden