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Quotes About Wish

and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially
~ Daniel Kahneman
Qué diera hoy por saber esto ayer!
~ Daniel Torres
I look into his gray-blue dying eyes. We're staring at each other, showing each other our last looks, the faces we'll take with us into eternity, and I'm thinking how I wish I knew him better, how I wish we'd had a life together, wishing my father wasn't such a complete and utter goddamn mystery to me...
~ Daniel Wallace
Without hope we live in desire.
~ Dante Alighieri
Even now she felt the need to add, "At a certain point I realized that everyone has something like this." "What do you mean, 'like this'?" "Everyone has something they want but don't get to have.
~ Daphne Kalotay
This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.
~ David Benioff
You have a pretty nose. I really want a nose again.
~ James Dashner
No pudo evitarlo. Su primer instinto fue desear que fuera ella, llamarla. Ansiar que, aunque pareciera increíble, ella estuviera ahí, esperándolo, a unos pocos metros de distancia.
~ James Dashner
Thomas shrugged. "I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now." His stomach grumbled and gurgled.
~ James Dashner
I also wish I'd been born with a clearly defined talent for something, or else stupid.
~ James Hamilton-Paterson
Oh," I say. I have run out of dialogue. Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there as a writer out there giving me things to say. This is one of those times. I just stand there, feeling stupid.
~ James Howe
I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.
~ James M. Cain
As I stand in the vestibule of self-abnegation, I wish to say that I have no regrets. Unfortunately, that would be the foulest lie. I fiercely regret my impending absence.
~ James Maxey
Because what's worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?
~ James Patterson
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
~ James Russell Lowell
And the heart-shock of believing, for only a moment, that you might just have what could never be yours.
~ Donna Tartt
I still have an overwhelming wish to see him the way that I first saw him: as the wise old man who appeared to me out of nowhere on a desolate strip of road, with a bewitching offer to make all my dreams come true.
~ Donna Tartt
I wish you smoked. I don't know why you don't. You weren't an athlete in high school or anything, were you?" "No." "That's why Bun doesn't smoke. Some clean-living type of football
~ Donna Tartt
Era melhor nunca ter nascido — nunca ter desejado nada, nunca ter esperado nada.
~ Donna Tartt
Open yourself to an encounter with heaven, be as a little child. Release your desire to the winds of the universe. Trust your angels to catch your wish and bring it to you in a delightfully surprising way." - Doreen Virtue
~ Doreen Virtue
God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I'd never learned to read.
~ Dorothy Parker
Please don't let me hope, dear God. Please don't. I
~ Dorothy Parker
I wish he were dead. That's a terrible wish. That's a lovely wish. If he were dead, he would be mine. If he were dead, I would never think of now and the last few weeks. I would remember only the lovely times. It would be all beautiful. I wish he were dead. I wish he were dead, dead, dead.
~ Dorothy Parker
the average Vogon will not think twice before doing something so pointlessly hideous to you that you will wish you had never been born—or (if you are a clearer minded thinker) that the Vogon had never been born.
~ Douglas Adams