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Quotes About Wish

I still love you," Aaron says softly, "I wish I can just turn it off, or that it would have faded away. I wish I could say I'm not the same man I was when you left me, that I've changed. But I am who I am, Caitlin. And all the magic in the world wouldn't change that.
~ Unknown
the vacuum left by the departing visitor seemed to echo along the hallway and into the walls. It was at those times, when her aloneness took on a darker hue, that she almost wished there would be no more guess, for then there would be no chasm of emptiness for her to negotiate when they were gone.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
And then there were the poets, those unbelievable people so different from other men, who told anyone who would listen that a wish is more important than a fortune, and that a dream can weigh more than iron or steel.
~ Unknown
What a heavenly night, Jay," she said in the voice which was dearest to him. "I almost wish I could come with you"-she remembered more clearly "—in whatever happens." "I wish you could, dear," he said, though his mind had not been on such a possibility; frankly, he had suddenly looked forward to the solitary drive. But now the peculiar quality of her voice reached him and he said, with love, "I wish you could.
~ James Agee
Not a man of habits, though he wished to be
~ Lydia Davis
Be careful what you wish for, dear. God just might move you halfway around the world someday.
~ Lynn Austin
He threw open the shutters and was silent. "There," he said, pointing to a shooting star. "Wish to stay together. Hurry." She watched the star's arc fade and wished, secure in her love's embrace. "I wish that we'll be together forever," she whispered. He pressed his lips against her ear. "I wish that we'll be together forever," he echoed. "Now it can't help but come to pass.
~ Lynn Kurland
Promoters of free institutions, myself included, love to say that liberty is a universal yearning, but so is the wish to eat.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
Achilles' eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. "I wish he had let you all die.
~ Madeline Miller
He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.
~ Madeline Miller
Even here, behind the darkness of my eyelids, I cannot name the thing I hope for.
~ Madeline Miller
My consolation is that we will be together in the underworld. That we will meet again there, if not in this life. I would not wish to be there without her.
~ Madeline Miller
Where there is greed, there is hope.
~ Madeline Miller
O goddess, if this is a dream, let me still sleep.
~ Madeline Miller
and where there was greed there was hope.
~ Madeline Miller
Our goddess of the moon is gifted with magic, with power over the dead. She could banish the dreams, if she wished. She did not.
~ Madeline Miller
where there was greed there was hope.
~ Madeline Miller
the ability to hope and dream.
~ John Eldredge
What is more likely, considering our perverse nature, than that we should neglect the duties, while we wish to retain the privileges of our Christian profession? Our
~ John Henry Newman
Do you want to have free medical care at the expense of other people, whether they wish to provide it or not? But this would require them to work longer for you whether they want to or not, and other men's lives are not yours to dispose of.
~ John Hospers
Thirty today, I saw The trees flare briefly like The candles upon a cake As the sun went down the sky, A momentary flash, Yet there was time to wish Before the light could die, If I had known what to wish, As once I must have known, Bending above the clean, Candlelit tablecloth To blow them out with a breath.
~ John Irving
One day, Jenny Fields thought, she would like to have a baby – just one.
~ John Irving
To be happy with you seems such an impossibility! it requires a luckier Star than mine! it will never be.
~ John Keats
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
~ Novalis