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None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
- Samuel Johnson
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
- AW Tozer
The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.
- Marianne Williamson
It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
- John Quincy Adams
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
- Barbara Kingsolver
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
Now, Jack, is there anything you would like? The youth pondered for a moment. I'd like a shillin', said he. Nothing you would like better? I'd like two shillin' better, the prodigy answered after some thought.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Richard Bach, the author of Illusions and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, who said, "You are never given a wish without the power to make it come true." The positive energy formula was inspired by the formula E + R = 0, which Jack Canfield, author of The Success Principles, shared with me.
- Jon Gordon
Regime is made up of people, so I do put faces to regimes and governments, so I feel that all human beings have the right to be given the benefit of the doubt, and they also have to be given the right to try to redeem themselves if they so wish.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
You're always hoping for a title shot.
- Corey Anderson