Quotes About Wish

Ah, it's a dog's life. I only wish during the war they'd a took me in the army. I coulda been dead by now.

Ah — h — h — h,' he said. 'I wish I was dead: an' kep' a cawfy shop.

The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

Der Mensch kann wohl tun was er will, aber er kann nicht wollen was er will.

In every human undertaking there is something which is not in our power and does not come within our calculations; the wish to win this for oneself is the origin of the gods. Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor is an old and true saying of Petronius.

Vi?as kv?l?k? v?l?šan?s bija, lai vi?ai b?tu pulkstenis, kam vi?a var?tu main?t laiku, kad vien v?l?tos (tam, vi?aspr?t, Laiks ar? dom?ts).

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.

You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil and achieved all that which you held to be good. Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? That world is not the product of your sins, it is the product and the image of your virtues. It is your moral ideal brought into reality in its full and final perfection. You have fought for it, you have dreamed of it, and you have wished it, and I-I am the man who has granted you your wish. John Galt's Speech

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.

Voglio dormire fino alla morte, magari di qualcun altro

It was one thing for hope to spring eternal for the unlikely—it was quite another to wish for the utterly impossible.

No sé si alguna vez has sentido algo así. Que querrías dormir durante mil años. O simplemente no existir. O no ser consciente de que existes. O algo parecido. Creo que querer eso es muy morboso, pero yo lo deseo cuando me pongo así. Por eso estoy intentando no pensar. Solo quiero que todo deje de dar vueltas

He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.

the reality of geography could not be wished away.

Zeus sighed heavily. 'I wish, all those years ago, Prometheus hadn't persuaded me to make mankind,' he said. 'I knew it was a mistake.

Goodness me. You don't ask for the moon, do you?" "Oh, what a good idea! The moon. Yes, I'd love the moon, please. That will be all. I'll never ask for anything ever again ever.

May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up first.

Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

How I wish you were fear.

You can always get exactly what you desire.