Quotes About Wish

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did?

How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.

Isn't it a pity we can't have two husbands? One to look at and one to talk to.

I do hope some day that I will have a white dress. That is my highest ideal of earthly bliss.

I wish I was back in Toronto, I said sulkily. The mince pie was to blame for THAT wish. I wish you were, I'm sure, said Felicity, riddling the fire noisily. Any one who lives with you, Felicity King, will always be wishing he was somewhere else, said Dan. I wasn't talking to you, Dan King, retorted Felicity, 'Speak when you're spoken to, come when you're called.

If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.

Carefully studying the delicate form of the doll, she was thinking how easy it was to wish for things as a child. Then nothing seemed impossible. Growing up, one realizes how many things one cannot wish for, the things that are forbidden, sinful. Indecent.

Growing up, one realizes how many things one cannot wish for, the things that are forbidden, sinful. Indecent. But what is decent? To deny everything that you really want?

but I'd hate to want 'em and not have 'em." "Oh what is it? What is it?" Laura asked, jumping up

On the train from Denver to Salt Lake August 25, 1915 Manly Dear, I wish you were here. Half the fun I lose because I am all the time wishing for you.

did hope that somehow Mary could go. "Oh, bother! I've miscounted

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

If you howl at the moon and swear on your own blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

she sounded like Lizbeth Scott in those Bogart movies. I've always wished I had a voice

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

There was some unresolved inner knot which she wished to untie and which was quite beyond my skill as a lover or a friend. Of course. Of course. I knew as much as could be known of the psychopathology of hysteria at that time.

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.

Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.