Quotes About Wish

This was not the adulthood that I had predicted for myself: an author of books, spending a week in Hawaii with his handsome longtime boyfriend before deciding which house to return to. I had wished for it, sure, but I also wished for a complete head transplant.

Time, time, time . . . Roger muttered. Ask me for anything but time.

per noi adulti l'arcobaleno è un auspicio di felicità.»

Erskine's freckles did incredible diplomatic work for him. Howard had often wished for a similarly benign face to show the world.

Desiring lasts a long time, demands and requests go on to infinity; fulfillment is short and is meted out sparingly. But even the final satisfaction itself is only apparent; the wish fulfilled at once makes way for a new one.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world. -Zora Neale Hurston

Ships at a distance have every man's wish onboard.

It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. However, I would not, by word or deed, attempt to deprive another of the consolation it affords. It is simply not for me. Somebody else may have my rapturous glance at the archangels. The springing of the yellow line of morning out of the misty deep of dawn is glory enough for me.

I've always wanted to adopt.

I wish I could have seen Andy Kaufman live.

If she had only known, things might have been different between us, but I could never talk to her about it" [Jimmy about Molly]

Try always to do what you WISH, and you will often sacrifice what you CAN do.

A girl can still admire, can't she? Even those who can't afford to go in the store can still window-shop. Right? Knowing he wasn't for me didn't mean I couldn't covet the merchandise.

The nature of money is that it comes and goes; it is not a constant like you and I and for that reason, we should not worry when an inconsistent entity does not exist as we wish it to for that is not integral to its nature.

He was my first sight of a king, and I thought they were a different breed of men, a thread of gold above the rest of us. How I wish that were true.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

Sometimes, you should be careful what you want in this world.

What is it that you want from me?" Everything. But they'd get to that... soon enough.

Four kids in T-shirts and jeans jam on a powwow stage. They're grinning, bouncing, fully engaged with their music, each other, and the relaxed crowd. I'm splitting fry bread with a cousin as we cheer on the band, and across the tent, a young girl reading a paperback catches my eye. In that moment, I wish for more characters like those kids in the pages of children's books. This anthology is a fulfillment of that wish.

Desire is the starting point for achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Sometimes I wish someone would invent a pill so David'd wake up one morning without autism, like someone waking from a long coma, and he'd say, "Jeez, Catherine, where have I been?