Quotes About Wish

I really, really want a golf cart, but I know that won't happen.

Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, there's a certain element of an eye for an eye. There's the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.' When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

Möcht' ich ein Komet seyn? Ich glaube. Denn sie haben die Schnelligkeit der Vögel; sie blühen an Feuer, und sind wie Kinder in Reinheit. Größeres zu wünschen, kann nicht des Menschen Natur sich vermessen.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

Unconditional love also includes—the ardent desire to be abused: at that point it is a defiance directed against itself, and out of its devotion the very wish for self-annihilation finally arises: Drown in this sea!

We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, "It is my will that the sun shall rise"; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, "I wish it to roll"; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, "Here I lie, but here I wish to lie." But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression "I wish"?

One will never find a professor who denies freedom of the will who does not also have something in his life for which he wishes to shake off responsibility.

Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

It is legal because I wish it.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.

Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

I wish someone would give me some money for doing nothing.

I wish there were 48 hours in a day and 14 days in a week.

Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it.