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Quotes About Wish

Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.
~ Deb Caletti
At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.
~ George Packer
You should really stop worrying, develop the real wish to live and with a good motivation, [such as] "I have a better life and I can put that life at the benefit of others."
~ Matthieu Ricard
The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
~ Ayn Rand
Mr. Kipling stands for everything in this cankered world which I would wish were otherwise.
~ Dylan Thomas
I wish I could get a giant injection that would turn off my thoughts. I would let a creepy doctor with a secret basement lab shoot a random glowing substance into my ear if I knew it would stop me from feeling the way I do.
~ E. Lockhart
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
~ E. Y. Harburg
The unbeliever has always such a very clear idea as to what Belief ought to be, I wish I had half his certainty.
~ E.M. Forster
only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
~ Earl Nightingale
Benny: Goodbye Irving Brax: But not for good I hope Benny. In another life where the story takes a different path… Benny: Yes, a better one...
~ Eddie Robson
There's nobody doesn't want something.
~ Edward Albee
Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener.
~ Anonymous
I really hate this darn machine; I wish that they would sell it. It won't do what I want it to, but only what I tell it.
~ Anonymous
Most people wish to serve God — but only in an advisory capacity.
~ Anonymous
When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: "I wish no gifts, only presence."
~ Anonymous
I just wish my mouth had a backspace key.
~ Anonymous
For each petal on the shamrock This brings a wish your way - Good health, good luck, and happiness For today and every day.
~ Anonymous
Thou hast given him his heart's desire.
~ Anonymous
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
~ Anonymous
Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.
~ Anouk Aimee
It's not a person you wish to fight, Madame, it's a system. How do you fight a system?" "You try.
~ Anthony Doerr
What ways? Whom have you put your trust in?" "You have to trust someone sometime." "If your same blood doesn't run in the arms and legs of the person you're next to, you can't trust anything. And even then. It's not a person you wish to fight, Madame, it's a system. How do you fight a system?" "You try.
~ Anthony Doerr