Quotes About Wish

As you cannot do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.

He had a conscience as elastic as any politician could wish for.

She wished she had candy, but she hadn't settled on a new hiding place to thwart the nefarious Candy Thief.

I wish I were whole. I wish I could have given you youngs, if you'd wanted them and I could conceive them. I wish I could have told you it killed me when you thought I had been with anyone else. I wish I had spent the last year waking up every night and telling you I loved you. I wish I had mated you properly the evening you came back to me from the dead.

Wait, Butch said, thinking about the glymera. Marissa's mated now, right? I mean, even if I die, she will have had a mate right? Death wish, V said under his breath. Fucking Death Wish Boy we got over here. The Scribe Virgin seemed flat-out amazed I should kill you now.

V was sooo stuck. "You know," Lassiter murmured, "I really wish I had brought my cell phone right now. Your face is such a picture. It's the kind of thing I'd like to have as my lock screen.

V—" "You're a good Irishman, right?" When Butch nodded, V said, "Irish, Irish … let me think. Yeah …" Vishous's eyes sobered, and in a voice that cracked, he said, "May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rains fall soft upon your fields. And … my dearest friend … until we meet again may the Lord hold you in the palm of His hand.

You are the son other mothers may only wish for." "How can that possibly be true," he said softly. "How can it not." -Rehv's mother and Rehv

Well, daddy?" she said over the trippy techno music. "Want to make my dream come true?" He

I'd love another kid like Nathan. Or maybe a little girl like you.

The night was getting more and more frantic. I wished Dean and Carlo were there—then I realized they'd be out of place and unhappy. They were like the man with the dungeon stone and the gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

When they want to do a thing, in business of course, they must wait till there arises in their brains, somehow, a religious, or ethical, or scientific, or philosophic, concept that the thing is right. And then they go ahead and do it, unwitting that one of the weaknesses of the human mind is that the wish is parent to the thought.

I would love to have twins - a girl and a boy - but who knows if that would happen. It would be my ideal situation. Wham, bam, be done with it.

Actually, I want twins.

Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.

I wish and you wish, but God does as he wills.

may ever in prosperity if life ever were in my favour, in my last dying will with a wish; may my bowls never empty. No matter what it is, whether it's a bowl of Ramen noodles or a bowl of meth or a bowl of Diamonds. May my bowls never empty in death -CRYSTALLINE DOLLMETH

Hope is really just desire disguised, just desperation, aching, dressed up like a prayer.

It's ironic, isn't it? A hundred psychology students, and not one of us recognized a classic psychopath. You know the strange thing? I wished I had done everything he claimed I had. If I had, then it would all have made sense: I would have been getting what I deserved. But I hadn't done any of it, and yet that made absolutely no difference to what happened. There was no such thing as cause and

Big Rock Candy Mountain,

You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.

It's true what they say … it's never the things you did that haunt you most … it's the things you didn't do, but wish you had.