Quotes About Wish

I mean, I don't want to pass judgment—I just wish my husband didn't shoot deer." "Oh, Mel, don't worry. I've been hunting with your husband—the deer are completely safe.

Normal was the simple wish of everyone with a mental illness. Normal was what everyone else, the worried well, took for granted.

Deh-ja smiles happily. "Let it be a son. Let it be a son. Let it be a son.

Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often--there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable--so painless. It's what they've chosen.

Deer Park! Oh, I wish we could stop here, just for a little while!

and she asked to be released.

We cannot protect anyone from being alive, Master Bosha. No matter how much we might wish to.

Byerly will no doubt wish to squire Rish." Thus saving steps for ImpSec, too. Mamere was well aware of every angle. Ivan managed not to choke. "Just . . . don't invite Miles. Or let him invite himself.

He blew out his breath and sat back. He'd almost wished for some clever evil plot, which they could then engage to out-clever. It could be surprisingly hard to counter Plain Stupid. Even by heroic measures.

You must go home eventually. I would throw myself off a precipice first, except that I would land in the arms of the gods, Whom I do not wish to see again.

She was not, she thought, quite fool enough or mad enough to wish for bandits instead. Maybe that was the trouble; maybe she just wasn't crazed enough. True derangement stopped at no boundaries.

Christmas is such a trial,' said Mrs McCosh. 'I do most sincerely wish the Lord had been born at some other time.

Yol Bolsun (May there be a road) [Louis L'Amour}

I wished I had a book. It had been so long since I had read. Could a man forget how to read?

There's two kinds of people in the world, son, those who wish and those who will. The wishers wish to be rich, they wish to be famous, they wish to own a farm or a fine house or whatever. The ones who will, they don't wish, they start out and do it. They become what they want to or get what they want. They will it.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

Oh, Jo, can't you? Teddy, dear, I wish I could!

Genius. Don't you wish you could give it to me, Laurie? And she slyly smiled in his disappointed face.

Taking these things into consideration, while blinking stupidly at Dr. Z, I resolved to retire gracefully, if I must; so, with a valedictory to my boys, a private lecture to Mrs. Waldman, and a fervent wish that I could take off my body and work in my soul, I mournfully ascended to my apartment, and Nurse P. was reported off-duty.

Libenter homines id quad volunt credunt." "Men are glad to believe that which they wish for?" Miss Calicut asked. Professor

let us speak of the wish and thereby of the sufferings; let us properly linger over this, convinced that one may learn more profoundly and more reliably what the highest is by considering suffering than by observing achievements, where so much that is distracting is present.

The fortunate chance in life is that the two correspond, that my wish is my duty and vice versa, and the task of most men in life is precisely to remain within their duty and by their enthusiasm to transform it into their wish.

We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It's true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you'll see a meteor fall, flame and die. That's not a star worth following; it's just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. There are no guiding stars.

It was a rare thing to be granted one's heart's desire.