I remember going swimming as a child and making a wish before I jumped into the pool. […] I’d stretch my arms out, as if I were sending my thoughts right into space. I’d make...

Whenever I saw a sunset, I would quietly make my secret wish right before the sun tucked under the western horizon and disappeared. It would seem as if the sun had taken my wish with...

…We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle… nor its price.

Se lei vuole una cosa e però ne ha paura non ha che da mettere un vetro in mezzo… tra lei e quella cosa… potrà andarle vicinissimo eppure rimarrà al sicuro… Non c’è altro… io...

Father is a school manqué … He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed.

Successful individuals desire things, and then get busy turning them into realities, while a lot of unsuccessful people wish from things, but then spend the rest of their lives wishing for them.

The will to dare, the power to act.

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

Xander could sense more than David’s smile. He wished he could be more like that, easygoing. But then, David hadn’t seen what Xander had seen.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]

She is not an ordinary girl. She is my fairy who will change my life and make it beautiful with her smiles.

Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.

How I wish the police service is instructed to arrest people who over-complain! Just arrest them, do no harm to them, but make them do the “work” they complain about with hard labour!

O mundo não é uma fábrica de conceder desejos.

It is never too late to start living the life you wish you had.

He dabbed at his tuxedo with a damp rag, and the fungi came away easily. “Hate to do this, Bill,” he said of the fungi he was murdering. “Fungi have as much right to life...

Life is not what you wish it to be , rather it’s what you make it.

Desire is when you work hard to achieve something. For an achievable object, its more about making a sudden decision.

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

Nesreća nesrećnih ljudi i jeste u tome što za njih stvari koje su inače zabranjene postanu, za trenutak dostižne i lake, ili bar tako izgledaju, a kada se jednom trajno usele u njihove želje, one...

The world of books, the greatest possessions.

[T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering–not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you’re askin. And when you ask, you’re trying. And all anyone can...

You should never wish for wishful thinking.

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.

Whatever you wish to achieve in future is a part of today’s job. Infuse all your energies in today and make every other day like this one!

how long is forever when you can stop the time for a while to see…the sunrise?

My shooting star wish would truthfully be to never leave your side. To be the one who will be there to encourage you in all your hopes and dreams. Be there if you fail so...

Be thankful for what you have.Be thankful for what you wish you have.Be thankful for what you are capable of having.

He looked upon this verdant, blossoming spring, a spring Joanna would never see, he looked upon a field of brilliant blue flowers- the bluebells Joanna had so loved- and at that moment he’d willingly have...

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

She believes in love, in destiny and she knows …she feels her prince in her destiny. She just has to wait for the right time…..

But when you’re in second grade, you don’t yet know the meaning of impossible

You don’t become the person you wish to become; you become the person you choose to become. True leadership does not come true wishes; it comes by choices!

The trouble with being too careful about your wishes, though, was that you could end up with a wish so shapeless that it could come true and you wouldn’t even know it, or it wouldn’t...

Enttäuschung und Frustration werden […] alle erleben, die sich wie im Märchen danach sehnen, Glück in einem Schlaraffenland zu finden … Nur, dass unser Schlaraffenland nicht ein großer Berg von süßem Brei ist … wir...

There’s an intimacy in listening to somebody’s lies, I’ve always thought–you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from the things that actually are.

As my nostrils filled with the stench of burnt hair and my friends scurried to clean up the mess, I thought, ‘If your hair catches on fire while you’re making a wish, does that mean...

we might have to eat the dog” poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald’s was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter poor, and...

Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow.

In catering, you’re always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

All times are connected. Treasure each moment.

I am anti-social and have a dark personality. I have no redeeming qualties and nothing to offer, therefore I could never have what I wanted

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Have faith little one ‘til your hopes and your wishes come true. You must try to be brave.

There’s no point having wishes if you don’t at least try to do them

If we put aside the practicality, we may find our wishes to be very innocent.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.