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Quotes About Wish

I know what it feels like to watch something happen and wish, going forward, that you could do something, anything, to change at least your world, the people around you, to keeo everything close to you safe
~ Sara Shepard
Thank you," I whispered. ... "Remember me," I said, knowing they would. And then, as fast as a shooting star, I was gone.
~ Sara Shepard
I saw a star slide down the sky, Blinding the north as it went by, Too burning and too quick to hold, Too lovely to be bought or sold, Good only to make wishes on And then forever to be gone.
~ Sara Teasdale
Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn't. They're like a song you hate but can't ever get completely out of your head, and this song becomes the background noise of your entire life, snippets of lyrics and lines of music floating up and then receding, a crazy kind of tide that never stops.
~ Sara Zarr
Korbyn is a god, and he wishes it!" Liyana called after them. "Thank you for noticing," Korbyn said. He flashed a smile at her, and she felt the warmth of his smile pour over her.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
What I want and what is true seldom have anything to do with each other
~ Sarah Beth Durst
All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.
~ Bea Arthur
In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.
~ Richard Stallman
You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for.
~ Elijah
Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?
~ Zadie Smith
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
~ Ben Jonson
I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.
~ Daniel Craig
I only wish I had more time for fund raising.
~ Nido R Qubein
My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.
~ Yann Martel
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Bush's America. I wish we had more time. I didn't even vote for him the second time, and I feel like I got to defend him.
~ Tucker Carlson
We always want what we can't have.
~ Marian Keyes
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
~ Marilyn Monroe
How I wish you could have known me in my strength.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Those who can't hope can still wish.
~ Marilynne Robinson
That stab in the heart she felt when she woke, and the panicky doubt that her life was in her grasp, not fraud or failure, not entirely - that was a brief misery and one she could set aside by putting the light on and reading for a while. She used to ask herself, What more could I wish? But she always distrusted that question, because she knew there were limits to her experience that precluded her knowing what there was to be wished.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Tell my father I wish to be his son.
~ Mario Puzo
I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...
~ Anthony Burgess
Pfffrrrummmp. And a very happy New Year to you too, Mr Enderby!
~ Anthony Burgess