Evolution Quote by Thomas Hardy

Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring…

— Michael Ende

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.

— Janette Rallison

Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing that wishes don’t always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there’s a…

— Alyson Noel

Wishes are thoughts vibrant with life and eager for action.

— Mary Martin

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with…

— Cynthia Lord

But what are wishes, compared with longings?

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Some Wishes Are Not Impossible They Just Need A Little Hope And Faith...!!

— Anonymous

Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what…

— Geraldine Jewsbury