Wish Granting Quotes

#1. I wanted ... " I said.
"I know," he said. "I know. Apparently the world is not a wish-granting factory." That made me smile a little.

John Green

#2. Aparrently, life is not a wish-granting factory. - Augustus Waters

John Green

#3. Apparently, the world is not a
wish-granting factory.

John Green

#4. The World is not a wish granting factory"- The Fault In Our Stars

John Green

#5. When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#6. Life is not a wish granting factory.

John Green

#7. that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it,

John Green

#8. We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings.

Kelsang Gyatso

#9. Is that so?" he asked. "I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.

John Green

#10. The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory.

John Green

#11. Normal life? Nothing about this is normal, Novice. I'm Death, not a Genie. I don't go granting wishes unless absolutely necessary." He levels his face to mine. "You do remember your family's souls, don't you?

Cecilia Robert

#12. That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.

Ike Skelton

#13. I've gotten e-mails asking, 'Are you taking students?' Well, come visit and I'll be happy to talk to you. But I'm not a degree-granting institution.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#14. Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

Lucas Papademos

#15. Oh shit, you had to be bloody careful when you invoked God; He could amuse Himself by granting what you'd prayed for ...

Ariana Franklin

#16. Love is a flower that blooms so tender, each kiss a dew drop of sweet surrender. Love is a moment of life enchanting, let's take that moment that tonight is granting.

Dean Martin

#17. We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

Peter T. King

#18. When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that's a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty.

Herbert Spencer

#19. It was God's fault, for taunting her as He had. For not granting her what He had granted so many other women. For dangling before her, tantalizingly, what He knew would give her the greatest happiness, then pulling it away.

Khaled Hosseini

#20. From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.

Pete Du Pont

#21. A portion of the electorate will always levitate toward the scratch and sniff candidate, granting them superficial appeasement without any substance.

T. Rafael Cimino

#22. Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

James Russell Lowell

#23. Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

Criss Jami

#24. The very existence of a world carries with it the proof of a world-maker, as the table guarantees the pre-existence of the carpenter. Granting

Arthur Conan Doyle

#25. For granting we have sinned, and that the offence
Of man is made against Omnipotence,
Some price that bears proportion must be paid,
And infinite with infinite be weighed.

John Dryden

#26. The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.

Charles Spurgeon

#27. Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.

Phil Gramm

#28. But I was learning forgiveness didn't have to be about granting absolution for sins but being able to find freedom from pain.

Heather Topham Wood

#29. We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.

Theodore Zeldin

#30. What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?

Cathy Guisewite

#31. I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

#32. The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness - preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.

Billy Graham

#33. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

Patrick Rothfuss

#34. I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#35. But, no matter how big or small dictators are, they all accept 100 percent the principle that granting government authority to manipulate our lives and control our property is legitimate and morally acceptable.

Ron Paul

#36. When King asked Adam to make three wishes, he wished that whatever was granting the wishes would not exist.

Anonymous

#37. The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life ... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.

Neale Donald Walsch

#38. After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.

Ric Keller

#39. I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#40. Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

James Madison

#41. If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.

Theresa May

#42. You know, it isn't that were particularly good at granting wishes, or finding things or, well, anything. Playing tricks, maybe. but we pay attention. We find the loose thread that everyone else misses and tug. It makes us look so very clever.

Carrie Vaughn

#43. I have had several offers to make the book into a film. I don't know if the message could be accurately transmitted, and so I have been somewhat hesitant in granting film rights.

Frederick Lenz

#44. At times God will delay granting you relief in order to draw you closer to himself. He might want to teach you just how helpless you really are and how all-sufficient he really is. Sometimes God will allow you to suffer for a season to test and strengthen your faith.

Joe Thorn

#45. Oh, what an unbearable yoke is free will! What a vicious curse of the gods, granting self-determination to creatures incapable of guiding themselves! What good parent would free a child among tigers?

J. Robert King

#46. Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.

Barack Obama

#47. I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

Susan Sontag

#48. Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights view will not be satisfied with anything less than total abolition.

Tom Regan

#49. Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

Jodi Picoult

#50. Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

Timothy Keller

#51. Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#52. Prayer is the connection that opens the door for all of God's blessings to be manifested in our lives. It is the process of granting permission for Heaven to show up with the finished works of Jesus.

Paul Silway

#53. How fickle it is, memory - preferring some days to others, granting first a blue sky, offering next the sound of laughter, swelling our remembrances until a largeness seeps into the grain of things and memory itself becomes billowed and flapping.

Sonja Livingston

#54. I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#55. Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

George Orwell

#56. Because -' she looked up at Bill and gave him a smile that lit up her face, granting him a sudden flash of her true beauty - 'love never die, Mister Bill. It never die.

Lucinda Riley