Quotes About Wishing

My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

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.

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.

Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wish'd for Hell for ease from Heaven.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

I wished, by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her to become one.

I'll pray for you, Emil,' he said. / 'About as useful as throwing a penny down a wishing well, Nathan.

Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

Instead of wishing things would change, I'm asking God for His strength to make a change.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Whenever I see Tom [ Cavanagh] - we're good friends - we just mourn that we didn't get a longer shot.

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.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Wanting ... is something 'having' cannot cure.

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.

This one's for you, and I truly hope you hear me, Through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey.

I wouldn't have wished for something hoping that I wouldn't get it. I wouldn't have wished for it knowing that I'd get it

I hope you slip in a puddle of AIDS and crack your head open

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveller saying 'anywhere but here'.

A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone.

I learned to love reading again, but a lot of the time the books made me ache worse. When I was in school I didn't realize that most fiction was about death and regret. About things people wished they had or hadn't said, done or hadn't done and how, for whatever reasons, saying or not saying, doing or not doing had buried them alive. I was already too familiar with that feeling to want to read much more about it. Lately I was sticking to nonfiction.