879 Quotes About Wishes

I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

[T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering--not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're askin. And when you ask, you're trying. And all anyone can do really is try, right?

But when you're in second grade, you don't yet know the meaning of impossible

O mundo não é uma fábrica de conceder desejos.

Sincere wishes come true.

Hay cosas que solo deberían poder lograrse cuando se desean por primera vez. Seguir deseándolas después es una desgracia. Es sobre todo un espejismo.

Haven't you ever wanted something you couldn't have?