Quotes About Wish

For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.

What can I get you? (Wulf) How about someone else to have this kid for me? (Cassandra)

I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.

I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.

For all of my life I have needed more.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

I've been short all my life. And if anyone wonders what my dying wish will be, they can stop wondering. That will be easy. I'll just tell them, 'I'll have a short bier.'

I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?

In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say "Yes" and hand me a chicken leg, or "No" and slap me with an old fish.

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

If I could only live another century!

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that's not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.

It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

Do you have a death wish?" he asked. Will grinned at him. I'm just relying on your judgment," he replied. "I can't keep track of everything in my head.

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

a dream isn't a wish - it's an altered state of consciousness ...

the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...

Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish ' but for the end of all human life.