Quotes About Wishing

I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.

Any substantial improvement must come from action on the system, the responsibility of management. Wishing and pleading and begging the workers to do better was totally futile.

He still loves life But O O O O how he wishes The good Lord would take him.

Don't you get it?' said Max. 'You're not praying, you're just... wishing. And wishes don't come true.

Mother seemed to wish that she'd never had a childhood, perhaps because all delight was fleeting and because the promise of one day was not fulfilled even just until the next.

I understood very well just then, why it is that men measure time. They wish to fix a moment, in the vain hope that doing so will keep it from departing.

wish I had a penguin. Penguins are cool. But my parents won't get me one because they live in Antarctica. Penguins, that is. Not my parents. My parents live at home with me. "EEEEEEEK!" screamed this

And memory insists on pining For places it never went, As if life would be happier Just by being different.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.

I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

Queremos que el Padre Muerto esté muerto. Nos sentamos con los ojos llenos de lágrimas y deseamos que el Padre Muerto esté muerto… y entretanto hacemos cosas asombrosas con las manos.

In olden times, when wishing still helped...." - The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

Every dandelion blown, each 'Star light, star bright The first star I see tonight'. My wish is always the same. Every fallen eyelash and first firefly of the summer The dream remains

Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher? No. You can't trade what is for what might have been.

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

I was praying that you and me might end up together...It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert.

I missed 11:11 by just a minute last night. I guess this is fates way of telling me youre not worth wishing for anymore.

And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey—a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go." "Don't you like it here?" "Sure. It's all right, but I wish I could go." "You don't even know where I'm going." "I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

Wishing just brought earned disappointment.