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What do you know?”“Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.”“W...

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What you have made me see,' answered the Lady, 'is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Y...

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I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world:Long l...

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These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world:Long l...

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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

Wishes are held to be ominous; according to which belief the order of the world is so arranged that ...

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My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent t...

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I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgemental, allow people to l...

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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes...

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We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for hi...

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If the wishes came true, they came true in terrible ways. Wishes were dangerous things. That was the...

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Kate DiCamilloRaymie Nightingale

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unk...

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I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and ...

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Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothin...

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I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of t...

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Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

I still watch her now, like I always did, and she watches me, her brown eyes looking out from a wolf...

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When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it...

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What you don't wish for will always be beyond your reach.

What do you suppose it means?'[Bastian] asked. ""DO WHAT YOU WISH.'" That must mean I can do anythin...

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Whenever I saw a sunset, I would quietly make my secret wish right before the sun tucked under the w...

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If I could grant wishes do you think I would be driving a cab?

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

I want to see the king," I said, after explaining who I was."Wonderful," said the ancient Nkumai who...

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That's coral!" she cried in astonishment. "We must be down in the deeps of the sea!"Well, wasn't tha...

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Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, t...

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P. L. TraversMary Poppins Opens the Door

But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste...

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Wishes are memories coming from our future!

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you m...

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I put my pen to the paper and began to write. I’d made so many wishes for so many couples quietly in...

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You stop believing in wishes when the only one you want to make can never come true.

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Sarah DessenOnce and for All

He looked upon this verdant, blossoming spring, a spring Joanna would never see, he looked upon a fi...

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If you are a dreamer come inIf you are a dreamer a wisher a liarA hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer...

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If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return ...

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he a...

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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allow

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in., ...

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Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

I think all wishes are the same, really," she continued. "Whether they ask for this, that, or the ot...

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William JoyceThe Sandman and the War of Dreams

I wish to be washed clean of my old life. To let go of my tide of sorrows and find my way to a new s...

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William JoyceThe Sandman and the War of Dreams

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others ...

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Zora Neale HurstonTheir Eyes Were Watching God

The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almo...

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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...

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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into considerati...

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Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so...

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Arthur SchopenhauerThe World as Will and Representation

When dark, it's bright, when brightest, it's gone. When gone for good, so will I be.What am I?