Quotes About Wishes Gone Wrong

#1. It's the things you'd be willing to buy again that give you true satisfaction.

Fumio Sasaki

#2. The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.

Catharine Beecher

#3. The individual citizen can prove with dismay in this war what occasionally thrust itself upon him already in times of peace, namely, that the state forbids him to do wrong not because it wishes to do away with wrongdoing but because it wishes to monopolize it, like salt and tobacco.

Sigmund Freud

#4. Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

Pamela Stephenson

#5. What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong?

Chuck Austen

#6. She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.

Michael Cunningham

#7. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

Beverly Cleary

#8. I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

Salma Hayek

#9. The Handsome Prince Handbook is mute on the subject of chronic workaholism - Prince Charming, apparently, knew how to delegate - and I didn't know where else to turn for help. What do you do when life begins to go wrong and you've used up all three wishes?

Nancy Atherton

#10. What should be shrunken must first be stretched.

Laozi

#11. You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him - no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one,
if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.

Florence Nightingale

#13. Men have made the world. And they've made a brilliant job of it. I love men. You know, men, you built Paris and you invented The Beatles, and, you know, and you've taught dogs to say 'sausages.' You know, I love your world. Thank you for it.

Caitlin Moran

#14. Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Arthur Keith

#15. Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#16. They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself.

J. Michael Straczynski

#17. I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.

Gail Carson Levine

#18. What was she to say? The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?

Robin McKinley

#19. It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

Homer

#20. Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

Scott Westerfeld

#21. 'It's A Wonderful Life' still makes me cry happy tears, and my more recent favorite, 'Elf.'

Mary Page Keller

#22. Desperation sends out the wrong messages, sends out the wrong vibrational output.

Stephen Richards

#23. What kind of god is it, sir, wishes wrong to go forgotten and unpunished?

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Kate Klise