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Quotes About Wish

Fire, Sun, Sand, and Sea, Listen now and hear my plea. Humbly do I ask of thee, Please bring what I wish to me.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
I am the deepest of unbelievers. Every neurosis is a religion to its owner and religions is the universal neurosis of mankind. This is much beyond doubt: the characteristics we attribute to God reflect the fears and wishes we first feel as infants and as small children. Anyone who does not see that much cannot have understood the first thing about human psychology, If it is religion you are looking for, do not follow me.
~ Jed Rubenfeld
I'm so hungry, comrade! It has been days since we ate those two raccoons!' 'I know comrade. I'm even beginning to wish we had some of your homemade quiche!' 'Oh comrade! Do you mean it?' 'Hey--Hey! None of that! If you ever tell anyone I said that, I'll deny it!
~ Jeff Smith
I dearly wished the joy of triangulation, the pounce based on a good ear's geometry.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
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~ Elena Garro
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, And flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat... or a girl?
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Portia was affected differently. She felt very quiet with happiness Oh, I just hope and pray, she said. And Mrs. Cheever walking lightly beside her, said: Well, I have a feeling, Portia, I have a feeling in my bones that your wish is going to come true. Do you, Aunt Minnehaha? Honestly? Cross your heart? I cross my heart, said Mrs. Cheever. Yes, indeed I do.
~ Elizabeth Enright
To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Where there is life, George, there is hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough to us all. I would hesitate to wish it hastened upon anyone.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Vaata, see ongi sinu häda. Sa soovid liiga palju, musike. Sul on selgroo asemel sooviluu.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I'm Joanna but you can call me Jo if you wish. I've always wanted someone to call me Jo. It's sounds so dashing, don't you think?
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
If you hate it, if you find you have made a mistake, it will still have been a change. As with a holiday, if it ends in your wishing to come home, its aim is accomplished.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Give me a book. There is no present I care about but that.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
For all of my life I have needed more.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
And here was a summer day, asking to be longer. As if a summer's day wasn't long enough.
~ Ali Smith
even language is a kind of muteness, that everything is at an irrevocable distance; it made him wish to cross incomprehensible farnesses and yet simultaneously know he couldn't, he was hobbled, shackled. It was the nature of things, we are all shackled, hobbled.
~ Ali Smith
Okay, I said. As long as I've got you here, we're going to use and appreciate this present moment. Because I wish, and I've wished a thousand times since you went, that we'd known it was the present, and that we were living in it.
~ Ali Smith
Do you hate me so much? no, I cant hate you. I wish I could, but I cant
~ Alice Borchardt
If you want justice, you must work for truth. And if you want to work for truth, you must do a little more than wish for justice.
~ Alice Domurat Dreger
Evidence really is an ethical issue, the most important ethical issue in a modern democracy. If you want justice, you must work for truth. And if you want to work for truth, you must do a little more than wish for justice.
~ Alice Domurat Dreger
But in a world where England is finished and dead,I do not wish to live.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Everyone who'd lost something of crucial importance wished he or she could go back to the moment when it was still theirs. The wish was so powerful it seemed it might reverse the direction of time. It bore apparitions and ghosts.
~ Alice Elliott Dark
I thought I heard myself being looked for what is it I said what is it madam that you wish to imply
~ Alice Oswald