Quotes About Wish

But she couldn't help it. She did hope. She was hoping. She had been hoping all along.

Sometimes, when you wished too hard for something, you paid a bitter price.

Why is it that you and I suppose that if we want something, it must come to pass?" Charles's lips quirked up into a smile so colored by grief that it felt almost as if other people had been brought by that tiny expression into the hushed solitude of the chamber. "There's an old saying: 'be careful what you wish for; you might get it.

Until recently, I didn't think that humans could choose loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.

Yes. Until recently, I didn't think that humans could choose loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.

Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration.

And that's why, years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.

the same time, what was becoming clear to me was the extent to which humans, in their wish to escape loneliness, made maneuvers that were very complex and hard to fathom

It was my wish to re-build my Japan in fiction, to make it safe, so that I could thereafter point to a book and say: 'Yes, there's my Japan, inside there.

Too bad dogs can't talk," Sam said. I glanced over at her. "Um, we're all feeling bad about Hayley," Corey said. "Don't interrupt by wishing we could question the dog." "That's not what I meant. Hayley could tell you it was a trap. He can't." "Kenjii's a she," I said. "Whatever.

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

Peace was all a human being ought to ask for, it seemed to her.

Elizabeth has told me many times that if she should become queen, it is her dearest wish that no Englishman should lose his life for the sake of his beliefs. I think that's an ideal worthy of a man's faith.

In understandably wishing to increase freedom and liberty, it paradoxically left massive road kill everywhere on the highway to rational heaven.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.

If I had a nickel for every time I'd wished I possessed the power to alter another person's mind, I'd be knee deep in nickels.

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

Your desire is your prayer.

Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

Some pray to marry the man they love, My prayer will somewhat vary; That I love the man I marry.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.