Quotes About Wish

Damn! I thought, furious that even after expending my only rocket, I couldn't get the machine pistol; I was right back where I started, except one rocket lighter. I had squandered my gift! I felt like the guy who found a lamp that would grant one wish, and he says, "Jeez, I wish I knew what to wish for." I

We all dream / isn't that the point?

If he had to wish, what would he wish for, he asked himself. What was there to wish for... a wish asked for the unattainable. The impossible.

He could want it to be a dream forever and that wouldn't change things.

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody!

I wish I were a shark so I could hold "cage tours" for people to see me.

I wish I were a shark so humans would play with me with strange toys.

He wondered if she knew how much he needed her. He wondered if the lilacs were still in bloom, and what she would have done if he really had broken one off that day in her garden and given it to her, and suddenly wished with all his heart that he had.

Would your life as an admiral's wife be as bad as all that? He said you could go to sea with him. He said you could always stay near him. He said you could have all the freedom you wanted. His only wish is that you give up the pirating. And given that he's an admiral, that's really not such an unreasonable request . . . is it?

Your every wish," he drawled, coming up and making an elaborate, all-encompassing gesture with his arm, "is my command." And then, mockingly: "Majesty.

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

Be careful what you wish for you just might get it.

If you were allowed one wish for your child, seriously consider wishing him or her optimism.

Since childhood, I have always rooted for the villains. I would wish the villain beat the hero and get away with everything.

Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.

It is legal because I wish it.

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

Too Much to Ask It seemed too much to ask of one small virgin that she should stake shame against the will of God. All she had to hold to, later, were those soft, inward flutterings and the remembered surprise of a brief encounter - spirit with flesh. Who would think it more than a dream wish? An implausible, laughable defense. And

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.