Quotes About Wishes That Don't Come True

#1. Don't you want to die nobly for a just cause?"
"I'd much rather live quietly for one.

Terry Pratchett

#2. I see my life flashing before me when I see people in the audience singing along to something I wrote in the '80s, and they're maybe standing next to someone who knows the more recent stuff.

Dave Pirner

#3. I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.

Nick Vujicic

#4. " ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

Charles Dickens

#5. Don't make a wish you aren't willing to come true.
Don't dream a dream you aren't willing to pursue.
Don't love a man you can't say, "I do".

Willowy Whisper

#6. We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?' she whispered. 'No, we never had to.

Ayn Rand

#7. I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.

Gabriel Orozco

#8. 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!

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. I'm not sure why the saying goes ... "be careful what you wish for" ... it should be, "prepare yourself for your wishes". We need to know ahead of time to prepare for what we wish for, so that when our wishes come true, we don't regret the wish or have them turn into nightmares.

C. Nzingha Smith

#10. Always keep in mind that the strongest factor of your Feng Shui is you.

Stefan Emunds

#11. Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.

John Piper

#12. Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression.

Chris Gethard

#13. People suck. (Nero)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did, you see the snow drifts piled up six feet high, and you're two feet, so it's impressive.

Kip Thorne

#15. I don't believe in wishes coming true. But if I do, what would I wish for? Normally I have such willpower. Like a dieter resisting a cookie, I don't even let myself go there. But for the briefest second, I do.

Gayle Forman

#16. Don't you get it?' said Max. 'You're not praying, you're just ... wishing. And wishes don't come true.

Peter Clines

#17. Usually you always see first cut is an extended version, because it's basically everything you shot, and you have that version and then you start cutting stuff out.

Fede Alvarez

#18. But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how much I wised that what he had told me had been true.

Siri Hustvedt