Wish Granter Quotes & Sayings

I think most people know the concept of difficult family situations. So I try to just ground a very big concept in something we can all relate to on some level. — Mark Millar

I don't care anymore. Even if she never speaks to me again because of the press, she's worth it. She makes me a person, not just a wish granter. — Jackson Pearce

Not because I couldn't find God, but because suddenly I absolutely did: God was there, I realized, and God had no intention of making things happen or not, of saving my mother's life. God was not a granter of wishes. God was a ruthless bitch. — Cheryl Strayed

Five years, nine months, and a few days. Fifteen months nearly have passed since he vanished, and is there anything so wonderful in an engagement of little more than five years? — Thomas Hardy

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness. — Julie Burchill

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi. — George Eliot

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. — Thomas Malthus

I'm such a strong human being. I amaze myself even. If only you knew what I've been up against, you'd want my autograph. I'm a real life superhero. — Crystal Woods

Put in the bluntest possible terms, what I discovered was that the U.S. secret intelligence community was collecting only information it considered secret, while ignoring the eighty to ninety percent of the information in the world, in all languages, that was not secret. — Robert David Steele

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough. — Thomas Carlyle

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

God is not a granter of wishes. God is a ruthless bitch. — Cheryl Strayed

In every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack — Victor Hugo

She knew she was lovely, and she shared it like a gift. Every smile from Agatha was like waking up to a perfect sunny day. Agatha knew it. And she smiled at everyone who crossed her path, as if it were the most generous thing she could offer. — Rainbow Rowell

I don't feel my age. I feel young every day. — Jennifer Aniston