Quotes About Wish

I now see clearly that our intellect cannot be satisfied until that truth enlighten it beyond whose boundary no further truth extends. In that truth, like a wild beast in its den, it rests once it has made its way there—and it can do that, or else its every wish would be in vain. —Paradiso IV:124–129

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

Pewnego dnia, gdy ojciec, pijany bardziej ni? zwykle, wbi? mi w?a?nie w czo?o gruby gwó?d? i zawiesi? na nim obraz, który o?mieli?em si? skrytykowa?, powiedzia?em sobie w duchu: "By?oby pocieszaj?ce, gdyby zjawi?a si? wró?ka i odstawi?a ten numer z trzema ?yczeniami.

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.

I wish the storm would make even more of a clatter, I wish the roofs would cave in, that spring would never come again, and that the house would blow down.

What do you most wish for?' said Laurie. 'A pair of boot-lacings,' returned Jo, guessing and defeating his purpose. 'Not a true answer; you must say what you really do want most.' 'Genius; don't you wish you could give it to me, Laurie?' and she shyly smiled in his disappointed face.

The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists[.]

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

Now he closed his eyes and unwished the test pass and wished instead that this little twisty key would turn Gillon's present into a secret cupboard.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.

True will is wishing backed by power

I love the word 'dream.'For some, it's something that's completely unattainable, yet for others, completely attainable.Choose your definition wisely.

Do they wish us well?Or hope to see us fail?

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

Mrs. Linden was beautiful in spirit and in fact. Her wish, she told her daughter, was to be a beautiful woman and surprise people because she was a beautiful woman who was kind.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

I imagine a hundred Chinese Icaruses, molding wings out of earwax. You can't stop people from wishing.

But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.

Why can't I ask?" "This is because . . . because if you ask it . . . it is no longer a wish but a selfish desire," said Amah. "Haven't I taught you—that it is wrong to think of your own needs? A girl can never ask, only listen.

Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish.

Luyi, it means 'all that you wish.' 

Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence.

You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.