Quotes About Wish

Il y a des maladies extravagantes. Qui consistent à vouloir ce que l'on n'a pas.

In that light, across the field, is all I will never have. Next to me is all I will.

Love is a certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to wish above all things the embraces of the other and by common desire to carry out all of love's precepts in the other's embrace.

When He made man in His image it was, above all, with the purpose that the desires of man would be in harmony with the desires of God. This is the high honor of being made in the likeness of God—that we are to feel and wish just as God.

Both had the fantasy; neither had carried it out.

Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

The dreams weren't as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

It's wrong, I know, but I play out this dance with him, exquisite and slow. I play it out in my head, because that is the only place it will ever happen.

He didn't want to go forward, but he always wanted to get another chance.

She sat on the dock at the lake and watched the clouds thicken. She wished it would rain hard and long and clear everything away. Rain never came when you asked for it.

She wished she could swap her days for her nights, her reality for her dreams. Were you allowed to change from one side to the other?

She wished she could swap her days for her nights, her reality for her dreams.

Wish for what you want work for what you need

Margo," I said, "What is your greatest wish?" "Global peace," she replied immediately. "Yes, but say it in a nice sentence." "My greatest wish," Margo said, looking rapturous and angelic, "is for global peace. That would be very … nice." I only hoped the judge wouldn't ask her to explain what she meant. Margo didn't have the vaguest idea what global peace was.

I wished my dad had seen it.

Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

That I want nothing," said the Prince, "or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint; if I had any known want, I should have a certain wish; that wish would excite endeavour, and I should not then repine to see the sun move so slowly towards the western mountains, or to lament when the day breaks, and sleep will no longer hide me from myself.

those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right;

His wish still continued, but his hope grew less.

In fact she herself once blamed me Kyprogeneia because I prayed this word: I want.

I was in shock. Funny how the world works. You don't get the something you really covet, but then the universe provides unexpected compensation. Here I thought you had to make a wish for it to come true.

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

Maybe she said. I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring