Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do , Something you are, And something you give away
- John Lennon
But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.
- J R R Tolkien
The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.
- David Viscott
I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
- Lloyd Alexander
The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
We are the nation of dreams. We are seers. We are wizards. We speak in visions. Our letters are like flocks of doves, released from under our hats. We have only to stretch out our hand and desire, and what we wish for settles like a kerchief in our palm. We are a race of sorcerers, enchanters. We are Atlantis. We are the wizard-isle of Mu.
- M T Anderson
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
- Aristotle
I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.
- David Attenborough
There will be no 'one day,'" I yell. "Because holidays are over, Griggs, and you and I are never going to cross paths again. Not in the next ten days. Not ever! Have a fantastic life.
"Be careful what you wish for," he says with quiet menace, "because I'm about this close to telling you to get the fuck out of my life."
I stare at him.
"What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.
More.
- Melina Marchetta
If I told you to wish for good health, you would think I'm ridiculous; but when I exchange the word "wish" for the word "pray", you believe it can work. That is the disempowering delusion religions have brought us.
- Steve Maraboli
My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.
- Steve Maraboli
But it is fortunate,'' thought she, that I have something to wish for. Were the whole arrangement complete, my disappointment would be certain. But here, by my carrying with me one ceaseless source of regret in my sister's absence, I may reasonably hope to have all my expectations of pleasure realized. A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
- Jane Austen
The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance.
- Jane Austen
Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.
- Julia Quinn
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
- Richard Bach
Be careful what you wish for..
- Beth Bares
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
- Blaise Pascal
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
- Haruki Murakami
AS he made his morning coffee, Tengo found himself silently wishing that this peaceful time could go on forever. If he said it aloud, some keen-eared demon somewhere might overhear him. And so he kept his wish for continued tranquility to himself. But things never go the way you want them to, and this was no exception. The world seemed to have a better sense of how you wanted things not to go.
- Haruki Murakami
You mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do is this:
"Rejoice evermore.
Pray without ceasing.
In everything give thanks."
I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.
- Wendell Berry
The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives,...but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.
- Wendell Berry
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
- Ambrose Bierce
Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'
- Barbara Billingsley
What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep into your skin"
"Do you know what they wish for when they give you the Unseelie crown?" Roiben's tone was soft, like he was telling a secret. Kaye could barely catch his words. "That you be made of ice. What makes you think it matters what I feel? What makes you think I feel anything at all?
- Holly Black
I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.
- John Dryden
Okay. I wish for world peace," Weetzie said. "I am sorry," the genie said. "I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league." "Then I wish for an infinite number of wishes!" Those people on fairy tales never thought of that. "People in fairy tales wish for that all the time," the genie said. "They arent stupid. It just isnt in the records because I cant grant that type of wish.
- Francesca Lia Block
Wish for what you want, work for what you need.
-Carmen's grandmother
- Ann Brashares
She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
- Ann Brashares
Fragmentary Blue
Why make so much of fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)--
Though some savants make earth include the sky;
And blue so far above us comes so high,
It only gives our wish for blue a whet.
- Robert Frost
It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.
- Candace Bushnell
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
- Voltaire
We cannot wish for that we know not.
- Voltaire
You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.
- Deb Caletti
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.
- Orson Scott Card
She zips back to the podium, and I don't even have time to wish for Gale's safety when she's reading the name. "Peeta Mellark."
Peeta Mellark!
Oh, no, I think. Not him. Because I recognize this name, although I have never spoken directly to its owner. Peeta Mellark.
No, the odds are not in my favor today.
- Suzanne Collins
Southern gentleman," he said aside to him in Arabic. "Do you wish for me to continue this for you?"
Caine's temper shifted to a low simmer in his chest. "Your way takes too long."
"Ma'aleyk, and your way hurts my ears," he argued.
- V S Carnes
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
- Lillian Gordy Carter
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
- Lydia M Child
All who make wishes are the same. When one wish comes into conflict with someone else's wish... then one must make a choice. Either abandon one's own wish... or crush the other's wish for the sake of your own.
- Clamp
The instand one gives up, that is when it all ends. Keep wishing. Wish strongly! Wish hard! Do not let it matter what kind of being you are! Do not let it matter what pressures others put on you! Continue to wish for that which your heart truly desires!!
- Clamp
My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
- Hillary Clinton
You should never wish for wishful thinking.
- Rachel Cohn
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.
- Terry Pratchett
If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.
- James Collins
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.
- Henry David Thoreau
What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.
- Douglas Coupland
Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.
- Jim Rohn
Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom
- Jim Rohn
You know, I always thought it would be cool to have a kid sister." "Be careful what you wish for." Adne looked up at him and grinned. "I'm kind of a brat." Ren laughed.
- Andrea Cremer
You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
- George Armstrong Custer
Love of my life. Love. Of. My. Life. A retrospectively absurd concept since the most I can say is that he was the love of a particular period of my life, and that it is the random vagaries of life itself, and never love, that define time limits. Meaning, to be in love and wish for its immortality is energy unwisely spent. The idea that we have any choice in the matter is the great illusion.
- Luke Davies
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
- Daniel Daylewis
We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.
- John Green
The Z's will kill us all, and then the Z's will die out and in sixty
years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Caroline's
wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartes's
musings, or Michelangelo's sculptures. And that is really only the
sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here
in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for
someone to remember them.
- John Green
I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
- Cameron Diaz
I am a wheel. As I rise, Sweetheart, I carry you along with me, a heady, dizzying spin toward the sweet oceans of eternity. On wings of flames we sink into the sea of love. May be burn forever like bees in honey. Who does not wish for that delirium to last forever?
- Rikki Ducornet
Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.
- George Orwell
One question at any rate was answered. Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.
- George Orwell
If you could wish on a star right now, what would you wish for?"I ask him.
"For time to stop.
"Why?"
He shrugs.
"Cause I could live forever at this moment.
- Simone Elkeles
In that moment Bastian made a profound discovery. You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.
- Michael Ende
You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.
- Michael Ende
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
- Epictetus
In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.
- Bryan Ferry
So I have just one wish for you the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.
- Richard P Feynman
It's the contradiction of life, if I were with them,I would only wish to be far away. Now that I am far away, all I do is wish for one more day surrounded by them
- Laura Fitzgerald
Every day I like what and who I am less and less," he whispered more quietly than before,
"because I know you wish for a different life. And I cannot give it to you.
- Penelope Fletcher
Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.
- Brendan Fraser
Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something youare, something you do,and something you give away.
- Robert Fulghum
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
- Neil Gaiman
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
- Neil Gaiman
Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.
- Julie Garwood
How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?
- Arthur Golden
Such beliefs were born in man's willful refusal to use his mind, in his lust for the unearned, his wish for success without effort. Such beliefs were the embodiment of hatred for all that was good, hatred for virtue, hatred for value. It was ultimately a hatred of themselves, of life, of existence. It was that hate, that dedication to death, that was the true manifestation of evil.
- Terry Goodkind
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
- Baltasar Gracian
As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, they're granted a wish by Jove. They confer in private before Philemon asks, "May one hour take us both away; let neither outlive the other." The wish is granted.
I said, "Simultaneous deaths? Why didn't they wish for eternal happiness instead? What else would anyone wish for?"
"They did wish for that," answered Jamie.
- David Guterson
Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.
- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?
- Shannon Hale
Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like "Be careful what you wish for," she should have told me time slides away on a hillside of loose shale and takes everything in its path - dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.
- Kristin Hannah
Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.
- Prince Harry
I've learned never to wish for people like us. People like us are creepy.
- Ben Hatke
Miz Fitz,
If my boyfriend would just once say "I'm sorry, I was wrong," I think I would die and go to heaven.
-Hellbound, a Lass
Miz Fitz sez:
You should wish for something realistic, like world peace.
- Pete Hautman
Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.
- Christopher Hitchens
In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip. It is only necessary to wish for your own subjection, and to delight in the subjection of others.
- Christopher Hitchens
Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
- Adolf Hitler
You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.
- T F Hodge
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
- Alice Hoffman
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
- Alice Hoffman
Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
- Brad Holland
Let's all try to be fearless, sometimes we wish for the most perfect of outcomes and we arrive at the most unforgettable. Life can be scary and leave us hiding, but when we come out of hiding, we may realize, that life was the one thing that we could always count on...
- Holly Hood
Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.
- Khaled Hosseini
We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.
- Joichi Ito
I never wish for critics.
- Jasper Johns
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground
Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound.
Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death
With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath
Of discontent; or that these prayers be
For weariness of life, not love of thee.
- Ben Jonson
If I had three magic wishes, I'd use the first wish for one more, to replace the one I just wasted wishing for something I already had.
- Jarod Kintz
I wish for you constantly for I want to talk about everybody and everything. I can't go up to a stranger & say 'your manners &looks have stirred me to this profound meditation'-
- W B Yeats
i have heard of the stars, of the play of light on the waves
these i would like to see
but far more than sight
i wish for my ears to be opened
the voice of a friend
the imaginations of mozart
life without these is darker by far
than blindness
- Helen Keller
It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
- Sue Monk Kidd
You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany
- Markus Zusak
They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.
- Henry Knox
If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel,then give me a strong blade, and enough strength, to shatter fate
- Tite Kubo
When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
- Wally Lamb
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
- C S Lewis
I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?
- Curtis Sittenfeld
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.
- Jennifer Weiner
I realized one of the greatest truths about tragedy: You can dream of disappearing. You can wish for oblivion, for endless sleep or the escape of fiction, of walking into the river with pockets full of stones, of letting the dark water close over your head. But if you've got kids, the web of the world holds you close and wraps you tight and keeps you from falling, no matter how badly you think you want to fall.
- Jennifer Weiner
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
- John Locke
Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!
- Charles Spurgeon
I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
- Yoyo Ma
But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topography that you can look at the earth and see what it would look like without any woods or covering on it. It's something like the gift all men wish for when they or young-- or old-- of being able to look through a woman's clothes and see her body, possibly even a little of her character.
- Norman Maclean
What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?
- Melissa Marr
Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.
- Wynton Marsalis
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
- Marcus Valerius Martial
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
- Marcus Valerius Martial
If he had to wish, what would he wish for, he asked himself. What was there to wish for... a wish asked for the unattainable. The impossible.
- Dalene Matthee
One I did, Travis flipped off the lamp, and then pulled me against him without permission or apology. He tensed his arms and sighed, and I nestled my face into his neck. I shut my eyes tight, trying to savor the moment. I knew I would wish for that moment back every day of my life, so I lived it with everything I had.
- Jamie Mcguire
I knew I would wish for that moment back every day of my life, so I lived it with everything I had.
- Jamie Mcguire
Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
- Terence Mckenna
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
- Earl Nightingale
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
- Susanna Moodie
I feel like people are only really dead once you stop learning about them. This is why it is important to me to keep learning about my mother, and what she wanted, and what her life meant, what she meant by the life she led. Then she will be alive, somehow, and her wish for me will have come true. My vow is to learn more about her. To see her as she saw herself.
- Liz Moore
How horrible to think what we may wish for, lay in anguish for, may be within our reach but we are unable to see them.
- D Morgenstern
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
- Toni Morrison
Common sense was not as common as the Deity might wish for. Indeed, not even the angelic choirs were entirely free of a certain vice known as silliness.
- Vera Nazarian
If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
- Connie Nielsen
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
- Simone Weil
I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.
- Audrey Niffenegger
What do you most wish for, Izzy?"
"Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.
- Mary Novik
And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.
- Lauren Oliver
You can make yourself believe that someone can look into your eyes and read your mind. You can wish for it, or dread it. There is no cause for either. As long as you carry your words inside, they are safe. You are the sole keeper. But sometimes that is a terrible curse, Adam. Those unformed words take on an enormous weight. Sometimes the burden of them becomes more than you can carry. For me it did. I simply had to share it. And Angela came to me. (238)
- Linda Olsson
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead.
- Michael Ondaatje
So many wish for magic so many beg for fame, but if you could manifest anything you want life would be a boring game.
- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Keanu Reeves?" she asks in amazement. I nod. "What did he wish for?" "Isn't it obvious?" I say, waving a hand at the screen. "Fame." "That's why he's famous? Because of a wish?" "Have you seen his movies? Surely you didn't think he made it on his acting skills?" I grant wishes; I don't work miracles. Viola looks back at the screen, eyes screwed up in awe. "I guess that makes sense," she says faintly as my former master delivers a line poorly. "Wow.
- Jackson Pearce
Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they're really after is to be carefree. Power when what they really want is control. Beauty when they want love. Sometimes they know it, sometimes they don't
- Jackson Pearce
I wish for all who look for Gold,
Shall find one letter less,
A world where trying always wins,
And leaves the loser blessed.
- Frederic M Perrin
The way the San Francisco Bay's sun rises and falls...It's splendor beauty is God's gift to us all. It's glorious colors brings great joy to me...wish forever there my love and I could be. Peace and love in side of me it always brings. For whenever I see it's majestic sky...My Heart Sings!:)
- Timothy Pina
If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?
- Ayn Rand
I had seen my becoming a vampire in two lights: The first light was simply enchantment... But the other light was my wish for self-destruction.
- Anne Rice
It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all my life, and seen it's most faithful worshippers crumble in the end, screaming just to live, as if all the dark veils and the lillies and the smell of candles, and grandiose promises of the grave meant nothing. I knew that. But I always wished I was dead. It was a way to go on living
- Anne Rice
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
- Samuel Richardson
Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.
- Karen Russell
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.
- Bernardin De Saint Pierre
I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.
- Rupert Sanders
You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.
- Dougray Scott
I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.
- Gary Shteyngart
She was not sure if she would want him to have known; we do not always wish for those for whom we long to know that we long for them, especially if the longing is impossible, or inappropriate... to be loved by the unlovable was not something that most people could cope with.
- Alexander Mccall Smith
My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The future is built by people's hopes, boy! That's why I can see it so clearly! Anyway, make a wish! Open your mouth, say the words...and who knows? It may come true! What do you wish for, boy?
- Sakura Tsukuba
In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.
- Neil Strauss
When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential.
- Lionel Suggs
...But living creatures are idiosyncratic. They are created in such a way that they can actualize only what their microscopic minds wish for. The concept of limitless is bound heavily by the minor actualization of what perfection is..
- Lionel Suggs
You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
- Charlize Theron
Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for.
- Joshua A Tucker
To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another person's unhappiness. Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.
- Chica Umino
I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.
- Jhonen Vasquez
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.
- Claude Vorilhon
I imagine I should have told it to you before? I love you, Sejal.I wish for you to become my wife.Recently I've also opened a shop in North Dakota and thinking that, just maybe, you love me too.
- Chayada Welljaipet
My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.
- Armstrong Williams
No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.
- Daniel H Wilson
The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world.
- Ahmed Yassin
- John Lennon
But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.
- J R R Tolkien
The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.
- David Viscott
I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
- Lloyd Alexander
The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
We are the nation of dreams. We are seers. We are wizards. We speak in visions. Our letters are like flocks of doves, released from under our hats. We have only to stretch out our hand and desire, and what we wish for settles like a kerchief in our palm. We are a race of sorcerers, enchanters. We are Atlantis. We are the wizard-isle of Mu.
- M T Anderson
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
- Aristotle
I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.
- David Attenborough
There will be no 'one day,'" I yell. "Because holidays are over, Griggs, and you and I are never going to cross paths again. Not in the next ten days. Not ever! Have a fantastic life.
"Be careful what you wish for," he says with quiet menace, "because I'm about this close to telling you to get the fuck out of my life."
I stare at him.
"What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.
More.
- Melina Marchetta
If I told you to wish for good health, you would think I'm ridiculous; but when I exchange the word "wish" for the word "pray", you believe it can work. That is the disempowering delusion religions have brought us.
- Steve Maraboli
My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.
- Steve Maraboli
But it is fortunate,'' thought she, that I have something to wish for. Were the whole arrangement complete, my disappointment would be certain. But here, by my carrying with me one ceaseless source of regret in my sister's absence, I may reasonably hope to have all my expectations of pleasure realized. A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
- Jane Austen
The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance.
- Jane Austen
Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.
- Julia Quinn
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
- Richard Bach
Be careful what you wish for..
- Beth Bares
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
- Blaise Pascal
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
- Haruki Murakami
AS he made his morning coffee, Tengo found himself silently wishing that this peaceful time could go on forever. If he said it aloud, some keen-eared demon somewhere might overhear him. And so he kept his wish for continued tranquility to himself. But things never go the way you want them to, and this was no exception. The world seemed to have a better sense of how you wanted things not to go.
- Haruki Murakami
You mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do is this:
"Rejoice evermore.
Pray without ceasing.
In everything give thanks."
I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.
- Wendell Berry
The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives,...but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.
- Wendell Berry
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
- Ambrose Bierce
Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'
- Barbara Billingsley
What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep into your skin"
"Do you know what they wish for when they give you the Unseelie crown?" Roiben's tone was soft, like he was telling a secret. Kaye could barely catch his words. "That you be made of ice. What makes you think it matters what I feel? What makes you think I feel anything at all?
- Holly Black
I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.
- John Dryden
Okay. I wish for world peace," Weetzie said. "I am sorry," the genie said. "I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league." "Then I wish for an infinite number of wishes!" Those people on fairy tales never thought of that. "People in fairy tales wish for that all the time," the genie said. "They arent stupid. It just isnt in the records because I cant grant that type of wish.
- Francesca Lia Block
Wish for what you want, work for what you need.
-Carmen's grandmother
- Ann Brashares
She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
- Ann Brashares
Fragmentary Blue
Why make so much of fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)--
Though some savants make earth include the sky;
And blue so far above us comes so high,
It only gives our wish for blue a whet.
- Robert Frost
It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.
- Candace Bushnell
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
- Voltaire
We cannot wish for that we know not.
- Voltaire
You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.
- Deb Caletti
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.
- Orson Scott Card
She zips back to the podium, and I don't even have time to wish for Gale's safety when she's reading the name. "Peeta Mellark."
Peeta Mellark!
Oh, no, I think. Not him. Because I recognize this name, although I have never spoken directly to its owner. Peeta Mellark.
No, the odds are not in my favor today.
- Suzanne Collins
Southern gentleman," he said aside to him in Arabic. "Do you wish for me to continue this for you?"
Caine's temper shifted to a low simmer in his chest. "Your way takes too long."
"Ma'aleyk, and your way hurts my ears," he argued.
- V S Carnes
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
- Lillian Gordy Carter
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
- Lydia M Child
All who make wishes are the same. When one wish comes into conflict with someone else's wish... then one must make a choice. Either abandon one's own wish... or crush the other's wish for the sake of your own.
- Clamp
The instand one gives up, that is when it all ends. Keep wishing. Wish strongly! Wish hard! Do not let it matter what kind of being you are! Do not let it matter what pressures others put on you! Continue to wish for that which your heart truly desires!!
- Clamp
My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
- Hillary Clinton
You should never wish for wishful thinking.
- Rachel Cohn
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.
- Terry Pratchett
If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.
- James Collins
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.
- Henry David Thoreau
What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.
- Douglas Coupland
Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.
- Jim Rohn
Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom
- Jim Rohn
You know, I always thought it would be cool to have a kid sister." "Be careful what you wish for." Adne looked up at him and grinned. "I'm kind of a brat." Ren laughed.
- Andrea Cremer
You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
- George Armstrong Custer
Love of my life. Love. Of. My. Life. A retrospectively absurd concept since the most I can say is that he was the love of a particular period of my life, and that it is the random vagaries of life itself, and never love, that define time limits. Meaning, to be in love and wish for its immortality is energy unwisely spent. The idea that we have any choice in the matter is the great illusion.
- Luke Davies
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
- Daniel Daylewis
We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.
- John Green
The Z's will kill us all, and then the Z's will die out and in sixty
years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Caroline's
wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartes's
musings, or Michelangelo's sculptures. And that is really only the
sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here
in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for
someone to remember them.
- John Green
I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
- Cameron Diaz
I am a wheel. As I rise, Sweetheart, I carry you along with me, a heady, dizzying spin toward the sweet oceans of eternity. On wings of flames we sink into the sea of love. May be burn forever like bees in honey. Who does not wish for that delirium to last forever?
- Rikki Ducornet
Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.
- George Orwell
One question at any rate was answered. Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.
- George Orwell
If you could wish on a star right now, what would you wish for?"I ask him.
"For time to stop.
"Why?"
He shrugs.
"Cause I could live forever at this moment.
- Simone Elkeles
In that moment Bastian made a profound discovery. You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.
- Michael Ende
You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.
- Michael Ende
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
- Epictetus
In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.
- Bryan Ferry
So I have just one wish for you the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.
- Richard P Feynman
It's the contradiction of life, if I were with them,I would only wish to be far away. Now that I am far away, all I do is wish for one more day surrounded by them
- Laura Fitzgerald
Every day I like what and who I am less and less," he whispered more quietly than before,
"because I know you wish for a different life. And I cannot give it to you.
- Penelope Fletcher
Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.
- Brendan Fraser
Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something youare, something you do,and something you give away.
- Robert Fulghum
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
- Neil Gaiman
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
- Neil Gaiman
Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.
- Julie Garwood
How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?
- Arthur Golden
Such beliefs were born in man's willful refusal to use his mind, in his lust for the unearned, his wish for success without effort. Such beliefs were the embodiment of hatred for all that was good, hatred for virtue, hatred for value. It was ultimately a hatred of themselves, of life, of existence. It was that hate, that dedication to death, that was the true manifestation of evil.
- Terry Goodkind
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
- Baltasar Gracian
As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, they're granted a wish by Jove. They confer in private before Philemon asks, "May one hour take us both away; let neither outlive the other." The wish is granted.
I said, "Simultaneous deaths? Why didn't they wish for eternal happiness instead? What else would anyone wish for?"
"They did wish for that," answered Jamie.
- David Guterson
Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.
- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?
- Shannon Hale
Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like "Be careful what you wish for," she should have told me time slides away on a hillside of loose shale and takes everything in its path - dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.
- Kristin Hannah
Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.
- Prince Harry
I've learned never to wish for people like us. People like us are creepy.
- Ben Hatke
Miz Fitz,
If my boyfriend would just once say "I'm sorry, I was wrong," I think I would die and go to heaven.
-Hellbound, a Lass
Miz Fitz sez:
You should wish for something realistic, like world peace.
- Pete Hautman
Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.
- Christopher Hitchens
In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip. It is only necessary to wish for your own subjection, and to delight in the subjection of others.
- Christopher Hitchens
Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
- Adolf Hitler
You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.
- T F Hodge
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
- Alice Hoffman
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
- Alice Hoffman
Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
- Brad Holland
Let's all try to be fearless, sometimes we wish for the most perfect of outcomes and we arrive at the most unforgettable. Life can be scary and leave us hiding, but when we come out of hiding, we may realize, that life was the one thing that we could always count on...
- Holly Hood
Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.
- Khaled Hosseini
We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.
- Joichi Ito
I never wish for critics.
- Jasper Johns
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground
Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound.
Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death
With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath
Of discontent; or that these prayers be
For weariness of life, not love of thee.
- Ben Jonson
If I had three magic wishes, I'd use the first wish for one more, to replace the one I just wasted wishing for something I already had.
- Jarod Kintz
I wish for you constantly for I want to talk about everybody and everything. I can't go up to a stranger & say 'your manners &looks have stirred me to this profound meditation'-
- W B Yeats
i have heard of the stars, of the play of light on the waves
these i would like to see
but far more than sight
i wish for my ears to be opened
the voice of a friend
the imaginations of mozart
life without these is darker by far
than blindness
- Helen Keller
It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
- Sue Monk Kidd
You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany
- Markus Zusak
They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.
- Henry Knox
If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel,then give me a strong blade, and enough strength, to shatter fate
- Tite Kubo
When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
- Wally Lamb
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
- C S Lewis
I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?
- Curtis Sittenfeld
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.
- Jennifer Weiner
I realized one of the greatest truths about tragedy: You can dream of disappearing. You can wish for oblivion, for endless sleep or the escape of fiction, of walking into the river with pockets full of stones, of letting the dark water close over your head. But if you've got kids, the web of the world holds you close and wraps you tight and keeps you from falling, no matter how badly you think you want to fall.
- Jennifer Weiner
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
- John Locke
Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!
- Charles Spurgeon
I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
- Yoyo Ma
But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topography that you can look at the earth and see what it would look like without any woods or covering on it. It's something like the gift all men wish for when they or young-- or old-- of being able to look through a woman's clothes and see her body, possibly even a little of her character.
- Norman Maclean
What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?
- Melissa Marr
Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.
- Wynton Marsalis
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
- Marcus Valerius Martial
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
- Marcus Valerius Martial
If he had to wish, what would he wish for, he asked himself. What was there to wish for... a wish asked for the unattainable. The impossible.
- Dalene Matthee
One I did, Travis flipped off the lamp, and then pulled me against him without permission or apology. He tensed his arms and sighed, and I nestled my face into his neck. I shut my eyes tight, trying to savor the moment. I knew I would wish for that moment back every day of my life, so I lived it with everything I had.
- Jamie Mcguire
I knew I would wish for that moment back every day of my life, so I lived it with everything I had.
- Jamie Mcguire
Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
- Terence Mckenna
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
- Earl Nightingale
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
- Susanna Moodie
I feel like people are only really dead once you stop learning about them. This is why it is important to me to keep learning about my mother, and what she wanted, and what her life meant, what she meant by the life she led. Then she will be alive, somehow, and her wish for me will have come true. My vow is to learn more about her. To see her as she saw herself.
- Liz Moore
How horrible to think what we may wish for, lay in anguish for, may be within our reach but we are unable to see them.
- D Morgenstern
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
- Toni Morrison
Common sense was not as common as the Deity might wish for. Indeed, not even the angelic choirs were entirely free of a certain vice known as silliness.
- Vera Nazarian
If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
- Connie Nielsen
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
- Simone Weil
I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.
- Audrey Niffenegger
What do you most wish for, Izzy?"
"Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.
- Mary Novik
And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.
- Lauren Oliver
You can make yourself believe that someone can look into your eyes and read your mind. You can wish for it, or dread it. There is no cause for either. As long as you carry your words inside, they are safe. You are the sole keeper. But sometimes that is a terrible curse, Adam. Those unformed words take on an enormous weight. Sometimes the burden of them becomes more than you can carry. For me it did. I simply had to share it. And Angela came to me. (238)
- Linda Olsson
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead.
- Michael Ondaatje
So many wish for magic so many beg for fame, but if you could manifest anything you want life would be a boring game.
- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Keanu Reeves?" she asks in amazement. I nod. "What did he wish for?" "Isn't it obvious?" I say, waving a hand at the screen. "Fame." "That's why he's famous? Because of a wish?" "Have you seen his movies? Surely you didn't think he made it on his acting skills?" I grant wishes; I don't work miracles. Viola looks back at the screen, eyes screwed up in awe. "I guess that makes sense," she says faintly as my former master delivers a line poorly. "Wow.
- Jackson Pearce
Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they're really after is to be carefree. Power when what they really want is control. Beauty when they want love. Sometimes they know it, sometimes they don't
- Jackson Pearce
I wish for all who look for Gold,
Shall find one letter less,
A world where trying always wins,
And leaves the loser blessed.
- Frederic M Perrin
The way the San Francisco Bay's sun rises and falls...It's splendor beauty is God's gift to us all. It's glorious colors brings great joy to me...wish forever there my love and I could be. Peace and love in side of me it always brings. For whenever I see it's majestic sky...My Heart Sings!:)
- Timothy Pina
If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?
- Ayn Rand
I had seen my becoming a vampire in two lights: The first light was simply enchantment... But the other light was my wish for self-destruction.
- Anne Rice
It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all my life, and seen it's most faithful worshippers crumble in the end, screaming just to live, as if all the dark veils and the lillies and the smell of candles, and grandiose promises of the grave meant nothing. I knew that. But I always wished I was dead. It was a way to go on living
- Anne Rice
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
- Samuel Richardson
Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.
- Karen Russell
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.
- Bernardin De Saint Pierre
I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.
- Rupert Sanders
You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.
- Dougray Scott
I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.
- Gary Shteyngart
She was not sure if she would want him to have known; we do not always wish for those for whom we long to know that we long for them, especially if the longing is impossible, or inappropriate... to be loved by the unlovable was not something that most people could cope with.
- Alexander Mccall Smith
My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The future is built by people's hopes, boy! That's why I can see it so clearly! Anyway, make a wish! Open your mouth, say the words...and who knows? It may come true! What do you wish for, boy?
- Sakura Tsukuba
In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.
- Neil Strauss
When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential.
- Lionel Suggs
...But living creatures are idiosyncratic. They are created in such a way that they can actualize only what their microscopic minds wish for. The concept of limitless is bound heavily by the minor actualization of what perfection is..
- Lionel Suggs
You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
- Charlize Theron
Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for.
- Joshua A Tucker
To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another person's unhappiness. Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.
- Chica Umino
I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.
- Jhonen Vasquez
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.
- Claude Vorilhon
I imagine I should have told it to you before? I love you, Sejal.I wish for you to become my wife.Recently I've also opened a shop in North Dakota and thinking that, just maybe, you love me too.
- Chayada Welljaipet
My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.
- Armstrong Williams
No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.
- Daniel H Wilson
The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world.
- Ahmed Yassin
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