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Quotes About Wish

Let it be the house, please let it be the house.
~ Robert Marasco
If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.
~ Robin McKinley
There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort of adaptability, this, she thought.
~ Robin McKinley
I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.
~ Robin McKinley
She wished for Ebono as she wished every time she saw Lrrianay at her father's shoulder, or any pegasus at any bond-mate's shoulder, or any pegasus. Or any time she took a breath, she wished again for Ebon.
~ Robin McKinley
Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.
~ Robin McKinley
We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.
~ Roger Ebert
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
~ Roger Zelazny
Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true.
~ Roger Zelazny
and while I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
~ Roger Zelazny
I shall conclude [by] saying I wish there was a war. Alex. Hamilton.
~ Ron Chernow
That his father honored his wish to leave Standard Oil only deepened the bond between them.
~ Ron Chernow
A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.
~ Lee Child
He really was perfect. If only he was perfect for me.
~ Lee Nichols
a wish is not a fact. Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true. Utility and truth are two entirely different things.
~ Leo Strauss
I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her
~ Leonard Cohen
Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them. 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! And at such a distance too!
~ Lewis Carroll
Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For
~ Lewis Carroll
Alice, 'it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very
~ Lewis Carroll
In truth, it is the simplest act in the world. The trick works because you wish it to. You must remember the most important rule of and successful illusion; First the people must want to believe it.
~ Libba Bray
The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.
~ Libba Bray
You can't miss what you've never had.
~ Linda Howard
A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.
~ Steve Aylett
I don't wish to be successful but I definitely wish to be successful in helping someone, sometime for something good.
~ Manasa Rao