Quotes About Wishing

I wish I hadn't said I'm going to retire.

Fakat ke?ke futbol oynasaym???m; belki de baca??m? Nüzhet'in a?k? kadar yormazd?.

sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I'm not living.

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

Oh fair enough are sky and plain, But I know fairer far: Those are as beautiful again That in the water are; The pools and rivers wash so clean The trees and clouds and air, The like on earth was never seen, And oh that I were there. These are the thoughts I often think As I stand gazing down In act upon the cressy brink To strip and dive and drown; But in the golden-sanded brooks And azure meres I spy A silly lad that longs and looks And wishes he were I.

It was a relief to decide you didn't have to decide. It was a relief to have faith in immutability, a relief to lose faith in your ability to change something, even when it was something you'd wish you could change. It was a relief to be imposed on intractably. Acceptance, if not brave, was at least a relief. That was the trick of it.

She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.

Even if atheists were right--that prayer is wishful thinking--they are right only in relation to God, not in relation to wishing. The importance of prayer is that it is an expression of our spiritual nature, and when we wish for love, peace,for our own good and the good of others we define ourselves as more than flesh and blood. We define ourselves as hoping, loving, and imagining beings who crave to know the source of our being.

If, when I am restless, I am wishing there were a God, why not trade that for a belief that tells me that when I am meditating, I am God, and that the momentary excursions into humanity are nothing more than illusion?

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else. When you were two years old you were shooting people with toy guns.

All you owe any person in the world is love, and love is wishing for everyone what you wish for yourself—health, happiness, and all the blessings of life.

information we need to resist him. When doubt comes, do you habitually resist the devil by reminding him that he is a liar? Do you reaffirm your faith in God by keeping a firm focus on God's promises in His Word and speaking them over your life? Or do you passively receive the thoughts of doubt and merely wish you were stronger in faith? Wishing is useless because it has nothing to base its desires on, whereas faith can rest on the promises of God.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

I wish to make my fortune with you.' 'Well, you can forget about that, for a start,' said Francis Crawford. 'And if your place in Paradise has been written, then for God's sake hang on to it. Because we're going in the opposite direction.

Absence is absence, whatever causes it. It is no more or less an affront to you. I did say, as I remember, that I would try to do what you wished me to do. And that you must forgive me if I failed.

This was unexpected, my soul's connection to you. You stole my loneliness. No one knows that I was wishing for you, a thief, to enter my house of autonomy, that I had locked my doors but my windows were open, hoping, but not believing, you would enter.

I was a very wanting child.

I wish I'd made 'Warrior,' and I wish I'd made 'Drive.'

I lit one of Mr. Talbot's cigarettes and hoped that Mr. and Mrs. Talbot, wherever they were, were having a much better time than I was. I hoped I would live long enough to come and visit them.

But the very action of naming something that subsequently happens—of wishing specific evil, and that evil coming to pass—this still has a shiver of the otherworldly about it.

I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you.

Cher sang the song "If I Could Turn Back Time" about how she wished she could turn back time just so she could stop an argument that she'd had. If this is the sort of stupid thing people would be doing with time travel, I don't think we should encourage it.

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.