Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. - Aristotle As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I have made myself a dream to dream of its rising, that has gentled my nights. Let me desire and wish well the life these trees may live when I no longer rise in the mornings to be pleased with the green of them shining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them. - Wendell Berry Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down? - Nathaniel Hawthorne Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God. - William Law Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exem...

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes. - Jack Kornfield The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill. - Harold Nicolson You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. - Lewis B Smedes

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have. - Bo Bennett I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources. - Brad Bird And just like that, I knew what I wanted. Something I had always wanted. But it was so unrealistic it hadn't even made it to my wish list. - David Levithan When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many. - Julius Erving You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that. - Stephen Fry

I wanted to say I'm sorry. It doesn't make it right, it just... makes it what it is. The bell rings then, and I turn around in my seat, thinking I agree with her, that it is just what it is. And not just the situation with Sebastian. But still wish I knew how I could make it right. How I could make everything right. - Lauren Barnholdt You know, Vik, you're amazingly human at times. (Alix) I know. But I wonder if the feelings I have are real or just electrical stimulations in my cortex that simulate human emotion. I wish I knew if they were real or imagined. (Vik) And that makes you completely human, sweetie. We all have those doubts. (Alix) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Why is it that you don't love me?" "Sometimes I wish I knew..." "Don't anybody tell him!! - Charles M Schulz I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up....

I wish I could take away your pain. I wish I could go back to when you were born and take you somewhere safe. Far away from all the people who've hurt you. (Kiara) You're doing that now. (Nykyrian) - Sherrilyn Kenyon There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence? - Libba Bray As I listen to Darcy breathing in the dark beside me, I wonder how we got to this. How we could be in love with the same person. How I coudl be sabotaging my best friend's engagement. In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance. - Emily Giffin In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance. - Emily Giffin I was always too mature for my age -...

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,...

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. - Aristotle My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. - Aristotle Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first - S A Bodeen You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back... you might as well wish the sky were red. - Sophie Kinsella Damn you for killing my son. I wish you had died in the womb. Better I should have killed myself than ever given birth to a monster such as you. (Sin's Mother) Thank you, Mother. As always, I will cherish your well wishes. (Sin) - Kinley Macgregor Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and.... I'm Mrs. Cibrian! - Leann Rimes

Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come; and may no foul creature come anigh you! And if the Lady could hear me and give me one wish, I would wish to come back and find you again. Good bye! - J R R Tolkien Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. - Joseph Addison If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?! - Stephen Colbert Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election. - Eric Alterman The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one w...

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve. - Hermann Hesse I'll talk to my mother," she promised. "If I'm sufficiently annoying, I'm sure I can get the engagement period cut in half." "It makes me wonder," he said. "As your future husband, should I be concerned by your use of the phrase if I'm sufficiently annoying?" "Not if you accede to all of my wishes." "A sentence that concerns me even more," he murmured. She did nothing but smile. - Julia Quinn This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms ...

Hey dickhead, you should know something. You attack my brother, you really piss me off. (Vane) Hot damn, Daimon food. Hey Vane, you want the white meat or dark? (Fang) How about I grab one leg, you grab the other and we make a wish and pull? (Vane) - Sherrilyn Kenyon I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same fifty percent rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't...Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the voodoo lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles. It's all the same...so just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself.. - George Carlin If you make a wish and if you keep on making the same wish, it will be granted. That's how strong human wishes are. - Clamp Make a wish," said Indigo. Rose made a wish and then asked, "Why?" "That's what I always do. Wish on th...

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up. - Bette Davis There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me. - David Hasselhoff I couldn't save Kataoka. "If I loved him, I had to grant him his last wish. "So I told him what he wanted to hear. "I said, 'No, you're no longer human.'" I hadn't been able to say anything. I couldn't speak, I couldn't move, I couldn't understand a word of what Miu was telling me. "Kataoka smiled kindly. "Like he was thanking me. "Then he jumped off the roof. "Osamu Dazai and I killed him. - Mizuki Nomura What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die. - Steve Toltz

If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?! - Stephen Colbert 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

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. - Mark Twain Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'. - Mark Twain Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad, then, but I didn't mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular. - Mark Twain I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wishI wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it andappraised itand taxed itand licensed itand staled it! - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Wish you were with him?' Volfier frowned sideways. 'I wish we'd won at Ospria, then the choice wouldn't have come up. But then I wish my wife hadn't fucked the baker while I was away in the Union...