Quotes About Wishing

Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows.

There're twenty-four hours in every day. Isn't there enough reality in that so we can put a small portion of time aside for wishing?

No point in wishing for what you can't have. - Blair What's the point in wishing for what you can and do? - Larken

She wished they'd had more time, say an hour or a week or maybe a few years, to figure this all out.

Most of the people who feel they are unhappy now are holding a grudge and wishing unhappiness on that person.

and even at Christmas, there is nothing to be gained by wishing for what one can't possibly have.

Wishing can be dangerous business. And dreaming only makes reality harder to accept.

Every minute I looked away, hiding my eyes, I was dreaming what you dreamed

The abyss of the past into which the world is falling. Everything vanishing as if it had never been. We would hardly wish to know ourselves again as we once were and yet we mourn the days.

I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

Voleva tornare nel suo sogno. Forse era ancora lì, da qualche parte dietro le palpebre abbassate. Forse alle ciglia era rimasta attaccata un po' di felicità, come la polvere d'oro delle fatine della buonanotte.

I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen.

There are some factors you can control, and some you can't. Wishing things were different won't make them different.

Hope had become almost a curse to her. She wished there need be no such thing. Ha, the torment of hoping, and the insult to one's soul.

wishing makes dreams come true only in Disney movies; it's poison in business.

My father built a time machine and then he spent his whole life trying to figure out how to use it to get more time. He spent all the time he had with us thinking about how he wished he had more time, if he could only have more time.

For mother's kiss — sweeter this Than any other thing.

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.

Life had gone on. It always did. that's what you learned as you got older. Time. It kept moving. You wished you could change. They were gone. They left you in a snap.

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch…is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.

Wishing is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake

I sometimes daydream about becoming somebody else. Anybody else. Not me. I imagine how I might lose myself, my old self.