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Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained
C.S. Lewis
DATO'S LAW. Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification.
Robert Dato
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Mahatma Gandhi
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
Jean de la Bruyere
There comes a night when all too late The mind shall long to prompt the achieving hand, The eager thought behind closed portals stand, And the last wishes to the mute lips press Buried ere death in silent helplessness.
George Eliot
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn
The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
Neil Gaiman
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
George Bernard Shaw
the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want.
Terry Pratchett
Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
Source Unknown
If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas Jefferson
You should treat your thoughts the way you treat yourself, and treat your wishes the way you treat your children.
Leo Tolstoy
We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted.
Aesop
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Johann von Goethe
