You Get What You Wish For Quotes

#1. Sometimes when you get what you wish for, it's not what you want at all.

M.K. Schiller

#2. Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.

Henry Bonilla

#3. You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

Eddie Vedder

#4. I wish you the wisdom to know you're better than what you've settled for, the desire for something greater, and the courage to go get it.

Steve Maraboli

#5. Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.

Colin Cunningham

#6. Things get complicated at times, so there are certainly moments when you wish your life were different. That's true for everybody, not just people in our profession. But there's nothing I feel like I gave up professionally. I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.

Laura Linney

#7. When I want to work on my material, I go to Benihana or the barbershop.

Tracy Morgan

#8. A lot of writing is thinking.

Horton Foote

#9. Growing up, I wish I hadn't tried so hard to fit in. I'd tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it's beautiful and you were made like that for a reason. It's tough being a girl. I think we need all of the support we can get.

Shay Mitchell

#10. I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization.
There is a proverb, which Tom was kind enough not to voice: be careful what you wish for. Unfortunately, not only did I get it, but so did those around me.

Marie Brennan

#11. Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends ... it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.

Barry Goldwater

#12. You will get what you wish for.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

David Lynch

#14. All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.

Robert Jordan

#15. To participate in the Eucharist is to live inside God's imagination. It is to be caught up into what is really real, the body of Christ.

Walter Brueggemann

#16. You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

Ken Jennings

#17. Be careful what you wish for, people. You just might get it.

Liz Fenton

#18. China approaches fashion with strong enthusiasm. And I believe that this enthusiasm can be translated into something interesting, economically speaking. Not only for my brand, but also for other brands.

Giorgio Armani

#19. You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany

Markus Zusak

#20. Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it

Charlotte Symonds

#21. You don't get what you wish for; you get what you work for.

Daniel Milstein

#22. You make me greedy for you. I just can't get enough. I wish you would just accept it for what it is and trust me.

J.B. McGee

#23. It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.

Nicholas Haslam

#24. Be careful what you wish for cause you just might get it.

Nicole Scherzinger

#25. I wish they would see the real person in me. One day, they will know I'm not here for the show. My mind do shine. My heart is so kind. But that they can not see because all they see is the outside of me. Who I am, what I do is only the reaction I get from you.

Herschel Walker

#26. You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.

T.F. Hodge

#27. Yinzer: DAMN!! I wish I had your balls! Tucker:I wish you had a breath mint, but I guess we don't always get what we wish for.

Tucker Max

#28. You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

Dougray Scott

#29. I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.

Rupert Sanders

#30. You have an affair to get for yourself what you wish would come from the person you love the most. And then you have broken her heart and she can never give you any of it ever again.

Ariel Levy

#31. I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it is to please them, to get that applause and to hear them out there screaming for you. It's like being in control of one big ocean and you can calm it down or make it roar.

Fannie Flagg

#32. Excuses and complaints are signs of a dreamless life

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#33. Never give up. It might not seem easy at first but in the end, it will all be worth it

Sunday Adelaja

#34. As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books don't get written by thinking about them, they get written by writing them. And that's when you make discoveries about what you're writing. That's when you get the happy accidents.

Neil Gaiman

#35. As real as,' said Eddie.
'As real as what?' said Jack.
'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns. None of us are perfect, are we? I can get started. As big as, as obscene as, as foul as. But I can't get any further. But that's life for you again. As unfair as ...

Robert Rankin

#36. His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!

Samuel Gilman

#37. Even through my good-looking youth, I wasn't called on for any romantic parts, which is okay. What I was called on to do, I enjoyed doing. The funny thing about life is that if you live long enough, I think, you'll get every wish you ever had. It'll all come true.

Morgan Freeman

#38. The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

Saku Koivu

#39. The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

James Buchanan

#40. Be careful. You may get exactly what you wish for.

Campbell Black

#41. You know what, my new mantra is this: ANT AND DEC. Ant and Dec. I might get their names tattooed on each wrist. Because they smile, and they never complain, and it seems to work for them and I wish I could be more like that.

Lily Allen