Quotes About Wish

So close, I thought. A shorter fence, a fatter dog, and everything would be different.

I hate not having what I want

So many things we ask for, hope for, prayers put out into the world so wide: there was no way they could all be answered. But you had to keep asking. If you didn't, nothing even had a chance of coming true.

Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine.

Whaddaya know? I didn't even win the read-a-thon and the two books I want most will still be ordered. And maybe, just maybe, I can find a way to uncurse Maryrose.

For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;

It is a false compliance with the multitude to raise in them emotions which they wish, when these are not emotions which they ought, to feel." "Whoever

Il destino esaudisce i nostri desideri, ma a modo suo, per poterci dare qualcosa che va al di là dei nostri desideri.

And as for her sister,he wished a strong wind would just blow her away.

Resolve to live as with all your might while you do live, and as you shall wish you had done ten thousand years hence.

I wish I was in Spain now, a glass of wine and a plate of ham." He sighs. "Instead of which I've got all this shit to sort out.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

so many things I long for have so often been denied

The realization of what was happening meant that I had to shift mental gears. There is, after all, fighting. And then there is fighting. It's a point I continually try to bring home to people in Yamashita's dojo. They don't really get it—it's something you have to experience for yourself. But it's not something I wish on anyone.

I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?

The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.

One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.