Quotes About Making Wishes

#1. Sometimes while gazing at the night's sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. Thinking in a concentrated manner to define desired outcomes is something few people feel they have to do. But in truth, outcome thinking is one of the most effective means available for making wishes reality.

David Allen

#3. So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.

Anita Loos

#4. I once thought it would take a miracle to improve my circumstances. Now, I believe it will take something far more powerful, if such a thing exists.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. It is darkness that reveals the brightest stars and most ardent wishes.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things.

Pawan Mishra

#7. Sometimes I think our future existence will depend on whether we can keep false information from proliferating too rapidly. If our power to verify the facts does not keep pace, then distortions of information will eventually choke us.

Norman Mailer

#8. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

Henry De Montherlant

#10. If you make a wish and if you keep on making the same wish, it will be granted. That's how strong human wishes are.

CLAMP

#11. They say to never look back.
But sometimes I do.
It's gratifying to see how far I've come.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible.

Sundar Pichai

#13. Now I'm not making love to anyone's wishes, Only for that light I see 'Cause when I'm dead and lowered low in my grave, That's gonna be the only thing that's left of me

Cat Stevens

#14. People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

T. S. Eliot

#15. At certain rare moments, a library is a kind of mind.

David Mitchell

#16. Not because I couldn't find God, but because suddenly I absolutely did: God was there, I realized, and God had no intention of making things happen or not, of saving my mother's life. God was not a granter of wishes. God was a ruthless bitch.

Cheryl Strayed

#17. Dante to Abby: My God you are going to kill me. Again

Alexandra Ivy

#18. After 15 years living in Paris, I felt myself growing old and stagnant - similar to stagnant water sitting in a bowl; cats have a survival instinct not to drink this water. They can sense when it's old and may be carrying air-borne germs. After 15 years in Paris, I no longer felt drinkable.

Roman Payne

#19. The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.

Bill Nelson

#20. It's difficult to protect something if it doesn't have a price.

Klaus Topfer

#21. Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#22. I suggest somewhere that anyone who wishes to write and has no aptitude for it would be better off making shoes for ladies and boots for men.

Marquis De Sade

#23. He meditated on the the use to which he should devote that power of youth which is granted to man only once
in a lifetime: that force which gives man a power of making himself, or even as it seemed to him - of making the universe
into anything he wishes.

Leo Tolstoy

#24. 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 it isn't coming true?

Sarah Thebarge

#25. no one paid attention and when Elle bounced back in, she turned the sensor on again and shut the door. 'Let's have some of our feast now!' she said. 'Good thinking,' said Isi as she reached into the laundry basket and took

Susannah McFarlane

#26. The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

Maude Royden

#27. I always play with words,now i'm out of words i don't know how to describe you because you're my Father.. But surely i can say i love you

Shujoy Chowdhury

#28. For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.

Sarah Weeks

#29. Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defense of his own person and property to the exertions, the bravery, and the blood of others, without making one generous effort to repay the debt of honor and gratitude?

George Washington

#30. When it comes to your values and personality, you are what you do in adverse situations.

Duff McKagan

#31. I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.
I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.
I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind.
I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. I wish upon a glimmering star,
My hopes as distant and as far.
So if this wish does not come true,
I'm thankful for the few that do.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#33. Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.

Alan Lightman

#34. I love my mother. I do love her.

Mindy McCready

#35. She had a lined, weathered face that put Roh in mind of the creased leather spines of old books.

Kameron Hurley

#36. There are two principles here: one is the actual needs of the masses rather than what we fancy they need, and the other is the wishes of the masses, who must make up their own minds instead of our making up their minds for them.

Mao Zedong

#37. Making a wish is fun to do.
Dreaming it out is much fun too.
Work, and your wish just might come true.

Richelle E. Goodrich