Quotes About Wishing

We were two losers who ate too much McDonald's, played too many video games, and had families we sometimes wished we could trade for twenty bucks.

and the evening was so beautiful, that it made a pain in my heart, as when you cannot tell wether you are happy or sad; and I thought that if I could have a wish, it would be that nothing would ever change, and we would stay that way forever.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow. The sky is clear but hard to make out, because of the searchlight; but yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink. The moon is a stone and the sky is full of deadly hardware, but oh God, how beautiful anyway.

I just wanted one more day." More tears welled up in her eyes. "But it would never be enough. I could keep asking for one more day for the rest of my life.

Growing up too fast and I do recall, Wishin' time would stop right in it's tracks.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

But was there any harm in wishing that, among the many thousands whose souls would certainly be required of them before the year was over, this wretched mortal might be one? I thought not; and therefore I wished with all my heart that it might please Heaven to remove him to a better world, or if that might not be, still, to take him out of this...

Und dann schlafe ich mit dem verrückten Gefühl ein, anders sein zu wollen als zu sein oder anders zu sein als zu wollen oder vielleicht auch anders zu tun als zu wollen oder zu sein.

May I wish you the joy of the season, and remembrance of all that is good in the past, together with hope for the future.

Deeply encased in snow, I couldn't move and couldn't see, save what my mind could see if I chose to use it, and wishing to die, I used nothing

In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

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.

Life would be so much easier if fictional boys were real.

I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change.

But to ask a computing device to stop gathering information and to stop sharing it with other devices is like wishing away all the magic in your magic wand.

We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.

You're wishin' too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

I'm sinking quicker than you could ever imagine. I'm wishing. I'm falling blindly in the dark. I'm crying because I have known that you and I..we were doomed from the very start.

Now he was the freshmen in college while she was stuck in highschool being the sophomore. She was left behind hearing about him, watching his mom and dad at church on Sundays, and wishing she could move to a place where no one knew her that she was the only thing he didn't mind leaving behind...

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

I wish him luck,' said Robin, voicing his thoughts, 'and may he live in the Chase for years and years and never be caught.

Before history began there must have been in the nation which writes it much progress; else there could have been no history. It is a great advance in civilisation to be able to describe the common facts of life, and perhaps, if we were to examine it, we should find that it was at least an equal advance to wish to describe them.

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.