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Quotes About Wish

you met me, flattered me, and taught me to be vain of my good looks. One day you introduced me to a friend of yours, who explained to me the wonder of youth, and you finished a portrait of me that revealed to me the wonder of beauty. In a mad moment that, even now, I don't know whether I regret or not, I made a wish, perhaps you would call it a prayer… .
~ Oscar Wilde
your fate is mortal: what you ask for isn't.
~ Ovid
If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope. - Zoey Mongomery (Redbird)
~ P.C. Cast
What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It was one of those jolly, peaceful mornings that make a chappie wish he'd got a soul or something
~ P.G. Wodehouse
There are all sorts of restaurants in London—from the restaurant which makes you fancy you are in Paris to the restaurant which makes you wish you were.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Very rapidly now Freddie realised that what he had been wishing for was a partner to share the perils of this enterprise which he had so rashly undertaken. In fact, not so much to share them as to take them off his shoulders altogether.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
They lie those that say I lost the moon, those that prophesized my fate of sand, they assert so many things with cold tongues: they wish to ban the flower of the universe.
~ Pablo Neruda
The law of miracles is operable by any man who has realized that the essence of creation is light. A master is able to employ his divine knowledge of light phenomena to project instantly into perceptible manifestation the ubiquitous light atoms. The actual form of the projection (whatever it be: a tree, a medicine, a human body) is determined by the yogi's wish and by his power of will and of visualisation. At
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Que tu deseo sea mi deseo.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Lonely Day I saw your dress sway with the breeze at the end of a lonely day. I saw your dress sway, drying on a hanger, play, dance with summer ease. Softly, I saw your dress sway and wished I were the breeze.
~ Pat Mora
I rather wished for their ruin, than studied to avoid it.
~ Daniel Defoe
I want what can't possibly happen, and that is why we broke up.
~ Daniel Handler
Te devuelvo la sonrisa y aquella noche, te lo devuelvo todo. Ojalá pudiera.
~ Daniel Handler
I really wish I had some yoga pants. Even though I don't really do yoga. Kinda like you mom…
~ Hannah, age 6
Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.
~ Jimmy Fallon
"When all my dreams come true, the one I want next to me – it's you."
~ One Tree Hill
I wanted it to be you, I wanted it to be you so badly.
~ You've Got Mail
"I wish I has done everything on earth with you."
~ The Great Gatsby
What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence - that is to wish to preserve all of its humble house - holds and neighbourhoods.
~ Wendell Berry
The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?
~ William Badke