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Quotes About Wish

Every fear hides a wish.
~ David Mamet
Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?
~ Richard Yates
God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.
~ Catherine the Great
Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.
~ Max Lucado
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
~ Phillips Brooks
Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.
~ Billy Graham
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
~ Coventry Patmore
In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.
~ Therese of Lisieux
And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God.
~ David Levithan
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
~ Heraclitus
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
~ Seneca the Younger
We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.
~ A. N. Wilson
Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.
~ William Butler Yeats
God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
~ William Shakespeare
Please, God, send me something to adore.
~ Michael Cunningham
What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
God, I wish you could have been there.
~ J. D. Salinger
God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives.
~ John Herschel
It sounds as if you'd like to be God.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
A good dream, is better than a shitty reality.
~ Blackbeard
I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
~ Oksana Baiul
The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.
~ Edmund Waller