Quotes About Wish

It is a rare thing to be granted your heart's desire.

Epifania's first order was the most ancient wish of dynasts: that Carmen must conceive a male child, a king-in-waiting through whom his loving mother and grandmother would rule. Carmen, realising in her bitter consternation that this very first instruction would have to be disobeyed, lowered her eyes, muttered, 'Okay, Epifania Aunty, wish is my command,' and fled the room.

You need something more from me—something I wasn't able to give you before.

I used to want to shoot my age. Now I would just like to shoot my temperature.

I wish you power that equals your intelligence and your strength. I wish you success that equals your talent and determination. And I wish you faith.

To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

I hope Mr. Obama has success.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

You must needs have wished to die, to know how good it is to live.

I should be much displeased at this, not because of any loss that it might occasion, but because I should no longer have the assurance that, whenever I wish, I can separate myself from the rest of the world.

When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it.

One of the commonest weaknesses of human intelligence is the wish to reconcile opposing principles and to purchase harmony at the expense of logic.

do you or don't you know the two worlds I'm talking about, the world that doesn't exist where you wish you could be on the dirt road that stretches out of Idaho away from the cave and family? The girl you want lives there. All my life I've wanted to be the grand gesture that forces the mouth open in disbelief Instead I was the lamp cord, collecting dust and never moving. It's easy to be the destroyed one.

I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats its wings in one corner of the globe and with that single action changes the weather halfway across the world.

But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.

To want someone so much could be a terrible thing, or it could be the best hope a man could have.

I hope you're happy, she said to Mrs. James. Happiness is for fools. Helena James shrugged. So I wish that for you.

They learned that sometimes the most dangerous thing of all in matters of live was to be granted your heart's desire.

Some things aren't destined to be no matter how you might want them.

the logic of fairy tales was that there was no logic: bad things happened to the innocent, children were set out in the woods by their parents, fear walked hand in hand with experience, a wish spoken aloud could make it so.

Sometimes the most dangerous thing of all in matters of love was to be granted your heart's desire.

Within such places, some of those on sale were considered more desirable if they possessed abnormalities, exactly what the Professor wished to find.

Doesn't everyone want what they cannot have?