Quotes of: Wished Keyword

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

The Spectator

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

The Shadow Rising

I wanted to believe that Makandal flew away, but my wishes can’t fly freely so. They’re rooted to the ground like me, who eats salt.

The Salt Roads

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

Stardust

She almost wished she smoked, so she could lie on the car’s hood, flick a lighter, and make up names for the constellations while nicotine burned her lungs.

Storm

Just once, he looks back at Arsay, and I feel like an entire encyclopedia of information and words is exchanged between them. I wish I could speak telepathy too.

Sveta

If you truly wish to change what is without, you must first change what festers within.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?

Tempting the Bride

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

A Tale of Two Cities

Kylie looked up towards the sky. "Sometimes I just wish Heaven wasn't so far away.

Taken at Dusk

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

Twenties Girl

You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?" -- Sandre to Catriana

Tigana

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Volume I

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

The Portable John Adams

I am not interested in wishing hard and having the Universe provide all I need without any work on my part.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

They agreed, however, that they could wish them only as much joy as they had together, refusing to be dislodged from their position as the happiest couple in the world, by anyone.

The Pemberley Chronicles

Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)

Prepare to Die!

Man is but lost in wishes, Of wealth, fame and riches, This airy castle he stitches, With logic that are his ditches.

PT. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father

If Erik existed and lived life in despair, We wish him to know we are here and we care.

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.

Picture Perfect

It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.

Paper Towns