Quotes about Wishes

History (that list of ballooning wishes, flukes, bent times, plunges and mistakes clutched like parachutes) is rolling itself up in your head at one end unrolling at the other.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature; and the good-humoured, affectionate-hearted Godfrey Cass, was fast becoming a bitter man, visited by cruel wishes, that seemed to enter, and depart, and enter again, like demons who had found in him a ready-garnished home.

God bless you, my dear!

a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.

It is indeed natural to us to wish and to plan, and it is merciful in the Lord to disappoint our plans, and to cross our wishes. For we cannot be safe, much less happy, but in proportion as we are weaned from our own wills, and made simply desirous of being directed by his guidance.

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did?

them: the girls whose hearts were to be wrung were yet fair little maidens a-star with hopes and dreams.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

They both always wished for the same thing when they were sitting on the roof of the aunts' house on those hot, lonely nights. Sometime in the future, when they were both all grown up, they wanted to look up at the stars and not be afraid. This is the night they had wished for. This is that future, right now. And they can stay out as long as they want to, they can remain on the lawn until every star has faded, and still be there to watch the perfect blue sky at noon.

If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola.