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Quotes About Wish

Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.
~ John Lennon
Do what I will never do.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Every heart has a hidden treasure. A secret wish. A silent dream. A special goal to long for. No matter how distant it may seem.
~ Jill Wolf
Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.
~ Jim Stovall
Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.
~ Jimmy Fallon
There is a part of me that wishes you would tell me what I want to hear, but I appreciate that you are being honest about the struggle. It will do," she said. "For now.
~ Jo Goodman
I wish magic was more dramatic
~ Jo Walton
What more could I wish for in this magic world of my childhood, encircled by a love and warmth that reached out from within, strong enough to melt the icy snow and sustain me down all the years of my memory?
~ Joan O'Neill
The dreamer whispered, Just once let something happen.
~ Jodi Thomas
At that moment, I wished with everything in my body that things could be different. I wished I could pluck out the threads of him that I didn't care for and keep the ones I liked. But then again, I knew that people couldn't be pulled apart in that way. Those severed threads would just cause the whole of him to unravel.
~ Ann Howard Creel
he didn't understand, but as the clock hand labored from one minute to the next, he wished that he were gone too. Off the basketball court, he had no usefulness. No
~ Ann Napolitano
Just wait til you meet my great-grandmother!' Said Frances. 'You'll wish you never had to go home again!' Minx was wishing that already, with all her heart.
~ Anna Elizabeth Bennett
O starry night, This is how I want to die
~ Anne Sexton
I want to sleep all day and night (i.e., not live but not quite die) …
~ Anne Sexton
Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
~ Euripides
we wish you everything you wish yourself' Jurgen said. 'What do you wish yourself?' Birgit asked. I felt silly 'I don't really have any specific wishes' 'a new old man perhaps?' Juliet said playfully 'but please, not just any old man!' I said. 'of course not just any old man! The man with whom it'll all be different.
~ Eva Heller
sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
she awoke often to lie and wish for that presence beside her—inanimate yet breathing—still Jeff.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
wishing he had always been as good as he had intended to be
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes I wish I'd been an Englishman; American life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I've just finished a book of his, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray,' and I certainly wish you'd read it. You'd like it.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You're so drunk you might shoot off your nipple, and then where would you be? --Dolly Nippleless. Without a nipple. Bosom with no nipple. -Ariel Wish List by Fern Michaels
~ Fern Michaels
Her fondest wish had come true, and here she was actually living smack-dab in the middle of what she once thought to be an impossible dream.
~ Fern Michaels