Quotes About Wish

Congressional oversight: When a congressional representative forgets to do something. (Historical note: this phrase once had another meaning, but since 9/11, years in which Congress never heard a wish of the national security state that it didn't grant, no one can quite remember what it was.)

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

You cannot regulate desire.

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

There's no prayer like desire.

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars

What we want we can't have and what we have we don't want.

The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.

Whiskers: According to an old bit of folklore, cat's whiskers that you find somewhere can be used in a wish-fulfilling spell. For this to work, burn the whisker and whisper a wish to the smoke. This spell might be accomplished with the whiskers of other animals too, like using a dog's whiskers to inspire devotion and constancy.

the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ...

She wished she could be out in the sunshine with a book and a kitten

She really really REALLY wished she'd brought a book with her.

And a new reason to hope that Queen Oasis lives for a very, very long time. The night Queen Oasis died,

Think of the fellow in that play that calls out "My kingdom for a horse" – it would not have been poetry at all, had he said sheep.

I am a tea, he thought. I am some kind of tea. And I have wishes.

i wish means: would it be nice if.. i want means: if i want it enough i will get it.

I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

Lo que él le pedía, ella lo deseaba inmediatamente sólo porque él se lo pedía.

Saat kamu menginginkan sesuatu, seluruh alam semesta akan bersatu membantumu meraihnya.

Kiedy si? czego? mocno pragnie, to ca?y Wszech?wiat dzia?a potajemnie na nasz? korzy??.

when god wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish

If with kindly generosity One merely has the wish to soothe The aching heads of other beings, Such merit knows no bounds.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.