Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. - Henri Frederic Amiel I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life. - Andrew Jackson Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers. - William Shakespeare Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. - Samuel Johnson In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. - James Buchan However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our though...

The real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. - C S Lewis It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind. - C S Lewis He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny. - ...

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 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

Some men may be unready for the coming of the genie who grants three wishes. - Toba Beta If a magic genie, from a lamp, offered me three wishes, I'd use one to wish you a happy birthday. So 33 percent would be spent in your celebration. I only offer that statistic so you don't think me chintzy when you find this card void of cash. - Jarod Kintz Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one - James E Rogers If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari. - Gilles Villeneuve

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 and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't. - David Benioff I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any ...

If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter) - Sherrilyn Kenyon And if wishes were horses, I'd have been run over in childhood. - Sherrilyn Kenyon If wishes were horses, I'd have been run over in my childhood. - Sherrilyn Kenyon And if wishes were pies, Id weigh more than I do. Sir Myles of Barony Olau - Tamora Pierce If wishes were fishes, even beggars would eat - Lili St Crow If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride. - Douglas Horton If wishes were horses mine would be glue - - Carrie Fisher If wishes were held on the skin and swiped by raindrops, then emotions were freeloading off the cells that made up their space. The only offering these cells ever entertained was truth, painful and raw. - Amy Guth If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Joanne Harris If wishes were horses, beggers would ride - Joanne Harris If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets. - Frank Herbert if wishes were win...