Quotes About Wish

As he made his morning coffee, Tengo found himself silently wishing that this peaceful time could go on forever. If he said it aloud, some keen-eared demon somewhere might overhear him. And so he kept his wish for continued tranquility to himself. But things never go the way you want them to, and this was no exception. The world seemed to have a better sense of how you wanted things not to go.

can barely recall it myself. How much did I suffer? How much pain did I go through? I wish there was a machine that could accurately measure sadness, and display it in numbers that you could record. And it would be great if that machine could fit in the palm of your hand. I think of this every time I measure the air in my tires.

All he had ever prayed for was the ability to catch outfield flies, in answer to which God had bestowed upon him a penis that was bigger than anybody else's. What kind of world came up with such idiotic bargains?

Pero como siempre, las cosas nunca salen como uno desea. Es más, el mundo parecía conocer a la perfección qué era lo que él (Tengo) no deseaba

I could no longer look at him. I wished, in fact, for blindness.

But you can't ever live in the place you dream about, the town you long for. You can't go there, and I don't mean like Thomas Wolfe or whatever, I mean the moment you become conscious of your desire, and then fulfill it, it evaporates.

It is an amazing moment, when one goes from being grateful for what one has to longing for what is impossible.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.

WWE has a very strong affiliation with Make-A-Wish, and we can provide a great experience. It's extremely flattering that for one wish, a family would like to hang out with you. There's nothing more flattering than that.

The Marlins were close to signing me, but in the end my wish was to come back to the Yankees.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I wish for adventure. I wish to matter. I wish for a home.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to

Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Glory they most ardently loved: for it they wished to live, for it they did not hesitate to die. Every other desire was repressed by the strength of their passion for that one thing.

Seni yaln?zca bir defa olsun görmek, yaln?zca bir defa sana rastlamak, yaln?zca bir defa daha bak??lar?mla uzaktan olsun yüzünü kucaklayabilmek; tek arzumdu.

Ich wünschte, dass ich Ihnen ein wenig fehlte. (Briefe an Lotte Zweig)

An angelfish priestess in anemone drag sat on a post and wished that she were a conch man.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.