Quotes About Wish

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. —Michel de Montaigne John Ling. Fallen Angel (Kindle Locations 31-32). Kia Kaha Press.

own life—he just wished it coincided more neatly with his life as

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.

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight make me a child again just for to-night!

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

Danilaw's underlying genetic users meant his own emotional balance could stray from perfection and his inherited neurochemistry meant that his rightminding fell in need of more frequent-than-usual maintenance. Not enough to cause a social disadvantage, or free him from Obligations-but enough to make him wish sometimes it might.

Eleanor, Helen, Ygraine. A queenly name. Your mother chase well. I could wish I had seen you before today.

Call it the universe of the Prometheans' goal-if they wish to shape the stories, I wish not to be shaped by them.

My sin is love in that I love my sin too well to wish to repent of it.

The builders must never have imagined that the world might find itself not only fragmented, but wishing to lie between modules.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

I suspect he would rather have lived.

When you give your heart to the ocean, you either drown, or spend your life wishing you had drowned.

Summer's gone today; I wished a wish that it would never go away, but summer told me it couldn't stay. So I said my goodbyes, with tear-filled eyes, and waved my farewell to the blue summer skies.

It is hard to be warmed by starlight, when you want the sun.

I lifted my head, my gaze meeting his. "Wanting something doesn't guarantee you will get it." "A man can still hope." "I've never had much room for hope.

I should have wanted you. I wanted so much to want you.

I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.

He had long been indifferent to which side won; he wished only that one or the other would do so decisively while he was still alive.

The most futile cry of man is his impossible wish to be understood

Other than damnation I know no magic to satisfy your wishes; for ye believe one thing, desire another, speak unlike, act differently and obtain the living value.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.