Quotes About Wish

I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.

May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.

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

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

The ability to last more than six minutes - isn't that what all men want?

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

I wish I could tell my parents, " If you want to help me, help me die.

This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want." "What's that, Ritchie?" His answer is simple. "To want.

My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.

You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams – the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

The common wish of the international community is for peace instead of war.

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

He supposed that was the way of human beings, wanting what they couldn't have,

The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out.

And I wish you were a hit man because, if I had the money, I'd hire you right this minute to knock yourself off.

really hadn't wanted to miss

Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don't even have it. You can't wish for control; you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play.

I had what my own life hadn't given me.

wishing I could go back in time and