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Quotes About Wish

There's a price to be paid for dreaming.
~ Denis Johnson
If you have not already done so, sign a Living Will and have it witnessed, but not by anybody who is going to gain from the Last Will and Testament dealing with your estate. A Living Will, which has nothing to do with property or money, is an advance declaration of your wish not to be connected to life-support equipment if it is judged that you are hopelessly and terminally ill.
~ Derek Humphry
I do not understand men." That made him chuckle, deep in his chest. "Yes, ye do, Sassenach. Ye only wish ye didn't.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Besides," he added cynically, "a pair of ballocks may bring a man more sorrow than joy—though I havena met many who'd wish them gone, for all that.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I drew a deep breath and sighed, shaking my head. "I do not understand men." That made him chuckle, deep in his chest. "Yes, ye do, Sassenach. Ye only wish ye didn't.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I wish Jane would haunt me." The words weren't much above a whisper, but I heard it clearly enough, and my heart clenched. The memory of that sort of wish—the bone-deep need to have contact of any sort, a longing that harrowed the soul, a hollowness that could never be filled—struck me so hard that I couldn't speak.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I now and then wished I could go mad"—he said thoughtfully "—it seemed a great deal easier than having always to think what to do next—but it doesna seem to come natural to me.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I understood very well just then, why it is that men measure time. They wish to fix a moment, in the vain hope that so doing will keep it from departing.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.
~ Trevor McDonald
I would have liked to have done more at Atletico. I was only there for a year.
~ Raul Jimenez
You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable.
~ Tom DeLonge
Growing up, I always wanted a dog, but my parents never wanted one.
~ Sophie Turner
I want a dragon.
~ Ellie Taylor
Freedom used to be something that I dreamed of but never allowed myself to fully imagine.
~ Chelsea Manning
I was a dreamer, and I still am one.
~ Mahira Khan
If someone said, 'What was anything you could wish for,' it would have been to have Donald Tardy in my band as my drummer.
~ Andrew W.K.
I'll wager my life there are millions of men Who wish that their wives were their sweethearts again
~ Irving Berlin
The thing I'd like most in the world," I said to her, since at this point I might as well go on talking with her, "is to make clocks run backward." The woman gives some ordinary answer, such as, "You only have to move the hands." "No, with thought, by concentrating until I force time back," I say.
~ Italo Calvino
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four."
~ Ivan Turgenev
I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.
~ Izaak Walton
His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard. I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.
~ J. K. Rowling
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
~ J. P. Donleavy
Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
~ Unknown