Quotes About A Wishing Well

#1. I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn't know what that was. I knew only what it wasn't.
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

Amy Tan

#2. My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

Les Dawson

#3. Freedom within is embodied in things as well as people. Like coins tossed into a wishing well, they contain our hopes and dreams.

Fennel Hudson

#4. Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

Rene Russo

#5. I am not a wishing well with legs.
(Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.)

Adrian Lamo

#6. We are like a wishing well
And a bolt of electricity

Fiona Apple

#7. A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in.

Elizabeth Bard

#8. When I had woken up the next morning, I'd stared at my ceiling for a good ten minutes, reliving the dream, committing it to memory ... wishing it was real, wishing I could crawl back inside that dream and disappear
stay there forever.

S.C. Stephens

#9. I find myself wishing that I could work that magic for her. That I could bring the smile back to her face. But I slap at those thoughts as if they were mosquitoes. What am I doing, caring so much about my best friend's love? I deny my feelings for her because they shouldn't exist.

Amy Plum

#10. I wasn't wishing for something I couldn't have. I could have her, but it wouldn't be easy. It wouldn't be easy, but it would be worth it.

Staci Hart

#11. The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.

Confucius

#12. One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

Napoleon Hill

#13. My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.

Steve Maraboli

#14. In a world of apples and kisses and shoes
He wasted his wishes on wishing.

Shel Silverstein

#15. My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

Larry David

#16. Wrap him up in floral wallpaper, wishing the envelopes I seal were his lips, leaving hickeys like stamps to show where he's been.

Taylor Rhodes

#17. Three: You don't know what it's like
Seven: To do a cartwheel followed by a somersault followed by wishing so hard you could fold your hands into a pistol and no longer exist.

Various

#18. I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.

Kristin Cashore

#19. Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.

Sue Monk Kidd

#21. People are so lonely, they spend their birthdays on the Internet, thanking people for wishing them a happy birthday, people who only know it's their birthday because Facebook told them.

Caroline Kepnes

#22. Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Richard Francis Burton

#23. And as far as wishing goes, I save my wishes for things that can still come true. There's no point in wasting them on the past.

G.A. McKevett

#24. Quill pinched the bridge of his nose, wishing Ivy would stop using the word "nude.

Manda Collins

#25. Finia glanced towards her bedroom, wishing the darkness would swallow her whole.

Yawatta Hosby

#26. The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

Susan Rothenberg

#27. Had I known you had pure, or what you thought were pure intentions, in that silly mind of yours, I wouldn't have tried to kill you."
Philip let out a bark of laughter. "Well, as far as apologies go, that wasn't half bad. Not every day a man comes in and apologises for wishing you dead.

Rachel Van Dyken

#28. We can't continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition.

Steve Maraboli

#29. like an idiot pitching change into a well that nobody ever said was open for wishing.

Kathleen Rooney

#30. What do you mean 'speaking of fairy tales'? Since when do fairy tales include gigolos?" Annie asked.
"Well, since most fairy-tale princes are either gay or weirdly attached to their mommies, I think Walt Disney should seriously consider their inclusion," Sophie answered.

Elle Aycart

#31. Still, however, she had the sensation of there being something more than immediately appeared, in Mr Elliot's wishing, after an interval of so many years, to be well received by them. In a worldly view, he had nothing to gain by being on terms with Sir Walter; nothing to risk by a state of variance.

Jane Austen

#32. It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

Phil Daniels

#33. Well, you can't be a vampire." I struggled to make it sound like I was teasing, not feverishly wishing. "You're not sparkling.

Katherine Pine

#34. Albert Einstein's equation, E=MC2, is considered to be a theory. Despite being one, we have been able to use it to produce the energy we need to power our cities, as well as the bombs to destroy the same.

Stephen Richards

#35. At the end of the night they all seemed so happy. Maybe it was just because they hadn't seen each other in a while, but as they all gathered around hugging, kissing, and well-wishing each other, I found myself feeling for the first time in my life like maybe I'd missed out on something.

Dito Montiel

#36. People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

Robert Wyatt

#37. It is part of the human experience that we are constantly gripping a good fellow by the shoulders and wishing him well, taking comfort from the notion that we will hear word of him soon enough. But

Amor Towles

#38. Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just
well
being sad.

Linda Lael Miller

#39. Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

Vera Nazarian

#40. When you're trading well, you have a better mental attitude. When you're trading poorly, you start wishing and hoping. Instead of getting into trades you think will work, you end up getting into trades you hope will work.

Randy McKay

#41. Sounds to me like you're praying Violet, not wishing. When we wish, it's usually for something frivolous...Something not serious. Like what you want for your birthday. Prayers are for more serious things." -Mom

Brenda Woods

#42. If you're not looking for the right thing, you can't be disappointed if you don't get it.

Kenneth Eade

#43. I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance of work and privacy - a harmony.

Kylie Minogue

#44. 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

#45. Here comes goodbye, here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear Im gonna cry
Here comes the pain, Here comes me wishing things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight, but here comes goodbye

Rascal Flatts

#46. I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.

Anthony Mason

#47. You are the Essence of the Essence,
The intoxication of Love.
I long to sing Your Praises
but stand mute
with the agony of wishing in my heart !

Rumi

#48. Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. Let it be enough.

Emily Whitman

#49. You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

Michael Ende

#50. Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

Louis L'Amour

#51. I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it's like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them.

Trent Reznor

#52. I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance ... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

Toby Young

#53. Drying up in conversation, You will be the one who cannot talk, All your insides fall to pieces, You just sit there wishing you could still make love.

Thom Yorke

#54. What doesn't kill you leaves scars, ruins your lungs, dries out all your tears, leaves you lying awake at 4 in the morning
wishing you weren't alive.

Walt Whitman

#55. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

George Eliot

#56. They said, "You'll never find someone like me again!" I thanked them for wishing me well. ;)

Steve Maraboli

#57. The years would not wait for Zealers and saviors, not for chance nor hope. The erratic line would scribble on until Nyra washed away from life itself, her youth stolen forever by the malediction that was wishing.

Kelly Michelle Baker

#58. John had dreamed so long and hard of this place that he had hoped it right out of existence. Probably no place in the world could withstand such an assault of human wishing.

Lorrie Moore

#59. As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes.

Rosario Dawson

#60. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

William Shakespeare

#61. It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised.

Dan Groat

#62. Wishing there was a Personal God in all this impersonal matter.

Jack Kerouac

#63. Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

Alice Von Hildebrand

#64. When one cannot be sure that there are many days left, each single day becomes as important as a year, and one does not waste an hour in wishing that that hour were longer, but simply fills it, like a smaller cup, as high as it will go without spilling over.

Natalie Kusz

#65. Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't.

Thomas S. Monson

#66. Today is a special day for you and for the universe. Today you started your life's journey and the universe got a precious gift and that is you. I am wishing you a day of joy to fill your life with pleasant surprises.

Debasish Mridha

#67. Wishing you the best, and praying for your success.

Diana Mankin Phelps

#68. I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear ... ?!?!

Rick Riordan

#69. Her eyes are closed when I reach the couch again. She looks so peaceful just lying there. I watch her for a moment, wishing I knew what the hell was going through her head, but I refuse to ask. I can carve pumpkins just as well as she can.

Colleen Hoover

#70. If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.

Erma Bombeck

#71. Some wishes come true. some wishes dont. sometimes you find out you were wishing for the completely wrong thing.

Kate Klise

#72. As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

Abraham Lincoln

#73. The first thing one must want, in order to gain anything, is to be himself gaining. Don't confuse sterile wishing with true wanting.

Edna Robinson

#74. You are the most powerful army in the world; you are the future of this planet. You cannot, you will not spend one more minute of your time looking in a mirror wishing you looked different.

Jamie Le Fay