My Wish Quotes - Page 5

• The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

  Janet Fitch

  Happy Birthday, Party, Cake

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• It’s a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world. So this is my wish, a wish for me as much as it is a wish for you: in the world to come, let us be brave – let us walk into the dark without fear, and step into the unknown with smiles on our faces, even if we’re faking them. And whatever happens to us, whatever we make, whatever we learn, let us take joy in it. We can find joy in the world if it’s joy we’re looking for, we can take joy in the act of creation. So that is my wish for you, and for me. Bravery and joy.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Dark, Opportunity

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• Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick kids one wish. 'No' I said. 'I used my Wish pre-Miracle.' 'What'd you do?' I sighed loudly. 'I was thirteen,' I said. 'Not Disney,' he said. I said nothing. 'You did not go to Disney World.' I said nothing. 'HAZEL GRACE!' he shouted. 'You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.' 'Also Epcot Center,' I mumbled. 'Oh, my God,' Augustus said. 'I can't believe I had a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes.

  John Green

  Crush, Girl, Believe

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• That's not the point," he said. "What kind of creep would I be if I let my girl carry something heavy while I walked along, swinging my arms?" Your girl? "The kind that respects my wishes," she said. "And my strength, and my... arms." Levi grinned some more. Because he wasn't taking her seriously. "I have a lot of respect for your arms. I like how they're attached to the rest of you.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, Wish, Arms

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl: Special Edition”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!

  David Dellinger

  Happiness, Christmas, Dream

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• When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Enemy, Wish

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu Art of War”, p.68, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Numbers

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• Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

  Jack Kornfield

  Suffering, Wish, Action

  Jack Kornfield (2014). “A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times”, p.61, Sounds True

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• I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.

  George Washington

  Men, Law, Wish

  George Washington (1837). “Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.169

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• As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and heart will be given to the cause of my state. Whether we have the right of secession or revolution, I want to see my state triumphant.

  Jubal Early

  War, Heart, Hands

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• My wish list is pretty short. I wish that we had empathy. As a society, we are so wrapped up in our own artificial creations that we have become disconnected from one another and the wonder of our natural world. I truly believe that empathy is the key to solving the majority of our environmental and social problems.

  Adrian Grenier

  Believe, Empathy, Wish

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

  T. E. Brown

  College, Always Trying, Wish

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• Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.

  Robert McKee

  Philosophical, Mean, Wish

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• This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

  Juvenal

  Wish, Reason, Pleasure

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• It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.

  Robert Genn

  Writing, Unique, Thinking

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• The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.

  William Blake

  Eye, Self, Whales

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• It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Parent, Wish

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• Sweeter than any sungMy songs that found no tongue;Nobler than any factMy wish that failed of act.Others shall sing the song,Others shall right the wrong,-Finish what I begin,And all I fail of win.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Song, Winning, Wish

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.352

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• Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

  Thomas Hood

  Wish, World, May

  Thomas Hood, Thomas Hood (Jr.) (1867). “The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood”, p.193

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• It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it is my greatest pleasure to work energetically, sharing my joys and sorrows with our people, on the road of translating my wish into reality.

  Kim Jong Il

  Reality, People, Envy

  Response to questions from Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency, October 13, 2011.

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• Actually way back when Abhishek and I were just co-actors, I kept telling him 'let's be a part of a troupe and go on a world tour'. And he kept on saying 'It's not the right time'. But I never thought that my wish will be fulfilled in such a grand way and that we will be part of the team as man and wife.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Team, Men, Wife

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• Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes

  Curt Flood

  Baseball, Years, League

  Curt Flood, Richard Carter (1971). “The way it is”, Trident Press (WA)

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• Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.

  Cheri Huber

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Children

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• I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.

  Louis C. K.

  Thinking, Laughing, Heaven

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• My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

  Sugata Mitra

  Motivation, Inspiration, Design

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