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Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."

The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time.


P.L. Travers

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to be exactly as it is.
Then wait patiently fo...
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Rose made a wish and then asked, "Why?"
"That's what I always d...
HILARY MCKAY I wish for adventure.

I wish to matter.

I wish for a home.
SOPHIE JORDAN I Wish For A Bright Day,
Damn
Why I Don't Wish For A Bright Life..!
IRFA RAHAT Star light, Star bright
I wish upon the stars tonight…

I whispered your name to a ...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN I wish the night would end,
I wish the day'd begin,
I wish it would rain or snow,
or ...
V.C. ANDREWS I wish I loved the Human Race;
I wish I loved its silly face;
I wish I liked the way it wa...
WALTER ALEXANDER RALEIGH In the meantime, I’ll
wish it upon a star.'- Michael Cooper
JULIE ANN KNUDSEN Most people say if you tell a wish it won't come true. But I don't think wishes work like that. I do...
CYNTHIA LORD Star light, Star bright
First star I see tonight…

I whispered your name to a star ...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Don't wish me happiness
I don't expect to be happy all the time...
It's gotton beyond that...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
...
ALAN MOORE How I wish I was like the water,
Flowing so freely with every drop
Let my every emotion wo...
VIRGIL KALYANA MITTATA IORDACHE I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
grav...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A WISH

Sometimes I wish
that he will live
and I will see him.

But m...
COCO J. GINGER I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail.
. . . Gladys G...
J.K. ROWLING For a long time," he said at last, "when I was small, I pretended to myself that I was the bastard o...
DIANA GABALDON Reasons"

I wish I knew why he left. What his reason were. Why he changed his mind.
<...
LANG LEAV everyday i wish her to be mine
every moment i wish that wish again
ADITYA KANDARI Time is expensive !
Then why it is free for many ??
Time is a gift !
Then why preciou...
ASHA BHOJANI I have something to tell you."

"How, you have something to tell me?"

"You have...
STEVEN BRUST I wish I don't have ears to listen, I wish I don't have eyes to see, I wish I don't have a tongue to...
EPHDAN I wish Italy would stop being a crybaby. I wish he would kick his bad habit of wanting to eat pasta ...
HIDEKAZ HIMARUYA I wish I was a kid again,
because skinned knees are easier
to fix then broken hearts.
ANJU Sometimes I wish for falling
Wish for the release
Wish for falling through the air
To...
FLORENCE WELCH I always knew it would end like this. It always does. There’s no point in fighting it, Aladdin. It...
JESSICA KHOURY I talk of you:
Why did you wish me milder? would you have me
False to my nature? Rather sa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do a...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And then may chance thee to repent
The time that thou hast lost and spent
To cause thy lov...
THOMAS WYATT I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS If I could have just one wish,
I would wish to wake up everyday
to the sound of your breat...
COURTNEY KUCHTA I wish...I wish I were dead...”
“And what use would that be to anyone?
J.K. ROWLING I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of...
LEO TOLSTOY Why did you wish me milder? would you have me
False to my nature? Rather say I play
The ma...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I wish you?d come out just like Bob
Altman.
MAYA RUDOLPH In hundreds of years of wish fulfillment,
never once to the demon’s bereavement,
had a w...
A. LEE BROCK As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish...
HUGHES MEARNS As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today. <...
HUGHES MEARNS He bends over to untie his shoes. “So, have you been ostracized from your little crowd of devotees...
VERONICA ROTH I wish to be great in life is a wish,i want to be great in life is a want,i will be great in life is...
ONIOSUN TEMIDAYO ISAIAH You have heard about the reindeer that pull old Santa's sled.
But mostly I hate Rudolph and wi...
MARK W. BOYER I said, 'Don't talk rot, Old Tom Travers."
"I am not accustomed to talk rot," he said.
"Th...
P.G. WODEHOUSE Who is it?" I asked teasingly
"Bigfoot," Dex answered from his room.
"What do you want, Mr...
KARINA HALLE Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.

But what about your true n...
VERA NAZARIAN I hate that word, CAN’T. I wish it had never been dreamed
up, spoken, or defined. I wish the ...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, the...
DAVID GUTERSON I wish I was Rapunzel
Letting down her hair
But at the bottom of my tower
There's no...
RAE EARL I'm not sure why the saying goes..."be careful what you wish for"...it should be, "prepare yourself ...
C. NZINGHA SMITH I asked,”Are you going to pick up next time I call you?”
”I did this time didn’t I?”<...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Two friends raised their heads up to the sky on a dark evening.
-Look at the stars.
--Let ...
J.R. RIM People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
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