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Quotes About Wish

I want to see the king, I said, after explaining who I was. Wonderful, said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. I'm glad for you. That was all, and apparently he meant to say no more. Why are you so glad? I asked. Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.
~ Orson Scott Card
I didn't want to see you. They told me. I was afraid that I'd still love you. I hoped that you would. My fear, your wish- both granted.
~ Orson Scott Card
Sólo se desea lo que no se tiene.
~ Orson Scott Card
When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.
~ Oscar Wilde
Get your hat, he said. - You wish me to come? - Yes, if you have nothing better to do.
~ Conan Doyle
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Me preguntaba de qué soy profesor. Bien, yo profeso la oscuridad. Esa noche disfrazada de día. Y ahora, le deseo lo mejor pero debo irme.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You may see the time you wish you had worse.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You go back home and everthing you wished was different is still the same and everthing you wished was the same is different.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nothing is changed. I wish it were a dream and I could wake. I wish I could forget it but I cant. I wish I could be who I was before but I never will be.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world is quite ruthless in selection between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing, the world lies waiting.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You're a pack of mudheaded bigots who loathe excellence on principle and though one might cordially wish you all in hell still you wont go.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You're a pack of mudheaded bigots who loathe excellence on principle and though one might cordially wish you all in hell still you wont go.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If there is an afterlife - and I pray most fervently that there is not - I can only hope that they wont sing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She wanted to disappear. Well, that's not quite right. She wanted not to have ever been here in the first place.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.
~ Cornelia Funke
Courage was something John Reckless only ever wished he had. Courage was not a given; it was acquired, earned. You had to take the difficult paths, and John had always picked the easy ones.
~ Cornelia Funke
If you are a dreamer, come in If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A Hope-er, a Pray-er, a Magic Bean buyer, If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire For we have some flax-golden tales to spin Come in! Come in! Shel Silverstein
~ Cornelia Funke
I wish, I wish I wish' wished Wish
~ Cressida Cowell
The first seeds of doubt about all that she had been told about Magic creatures were sown in Wish's mind when she looked up at the giant's kid face....
~ Cressida Cowell