Best magic & wish Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.”

Men Soul Problem Reality Wish Wise Magic Conform Cardinals Applied Science

Book:Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Source: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

“Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.”

Way Writing Mind Mean Soul Body Force Wish Magic Thousand Draws Letters Distance Silent Division Absent Pow Absent Friends

Author:Aaron Hill

“Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.”

Wells Wish Magic Dare Harm Charm Fairy Pow

Book:Forester. The Prussian vase. The good aunt. Angelina. The good French governess. Mademoiselle Panache. The knapsack

Source: Forester. The Prussian vase. The good aunt. Angelina. The good French governess. Mademoiselle Panache. The knapsack

“If you had a magic wand today, and you had one wish - to wipe out all the drug dealers, take them all off the streets and put them in jail, no trial, everybody who sold drugs would automatically be convicted. You know what's going to happen? There's going to be new ones. Why? Because the drug users are going to create them.”

Ifs Knows Happens Today Wish Magic Streets Drug Trials Jail Users Wipe Dealer Wands Drug Dealers Magic Wands

Author:Rick Ross

“The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.”

Wish Magic Granted Routine Procedures

Author:Mason Cooley

“... skepticism about past returns is crucial. The truth is, much as you may wish you could know which funds will be hot, you can't - and neither can the legions of advisers and publications that claim they can. That's why building a portfolio around index funds isn't really settling for average. It's just refusing to believe in magic.”

Knows Believe May Past Wish Magic Building Return Truth Is Claims Hot Investing Average Settling Fund Crucial Skepticism Wish You Publication Adviser Legion Portfolios Index Funds

Author:Bethany McLean

“The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.”

Life Action Order Wish Secret Magic Leap Penetrate Magic Of Life

Author:Lu Yen-hsun

“I continue to say that I wish we had another word other than magic. It no longer means what we are doing or we are attempting to do. We have to find another terminology. Magic is first and foremost a way of belief.”

Way Firsts Mean Belief Wish Magic Attempting Terminology

Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

“The pure mystic wishes to approach his God only in the all-embracing love. The yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of God. The bhakti-yogi keeps to the road of love and devotion, the raja and hatha yogi choose the path of self-control or volition, the jnana yogi will follow that of wisdom and cognition.”

Self Wish Walks Path Magic Pure Approach Aspect Devotion Mysticism Self Control Mystic Cognition Yogi Volition Bhakti Embracing Love

Author:Franz Bardon

“The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading a joyful peace more crucial than ever before. Let us keep our minds on what matters, which is our work, which is astonishment and gratitude. From this quiet magic comes a power for all other new years wishes to come true.”

Years Mind Matter Moments Wish Clear Magic Gratitude Quiet Crucial New Year Joyful What Matters Astonishment New Year Wishes Shortness Shortness Of Life

Author:Martha Beck

“As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.”

Stills Reading Left Wish Doors Magic Minutes Library

Author:David Mitchell

“A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!”

“I'd just love magic. I'd love to be able to just click and transport. I'd be like a fairy little godmother, I think, going round hearing what people wish for and seeing what I could do for them.”

People Thinking Littles Able Wish Seeing Magic Rounds Hearing Fairy Transport Clicks Godmother

Author:Delta Goodrem

“We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.”

People World Play Wish Magic Truth Is Drug Sweat

Author:Wayne Coyne

“I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so fun to say. He has such great alliteration and paints the most vivid images with his lyrics”

Stills Fun Wish Alive Magic Paint Vivid Alliteration

Author:Tituss Burgess

“I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.”

Life Is Wish Magic Wave Hey Wands Magic Wands

Author:Desmond Tutu

“You'd go in the magic shop [as an 8-year-old ], and you'd walk up to the magicians doing stuff, and they'd turn their back on you. "Oh my gosh, I wish they would accept me." It really lit a fire. I really wanted to succeed.”

Years Wanted Turns Wish Stuff Walks Accepting Fire Magic Succeed Shops Lit Magician Accept Me Oh My Gosh

Author:David Copperfield

“Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for dealing with reality that used to be part of the normal equipment of adulthood - for instance, knowing the difference between wishing for stuff and making stuff happen. We bamboozled ourselves with too much magic.”

“I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back into my imagination and just let it work, and not question it and not fret about it.”

Wish Imagination Magic Work Out My Imagination

Author:Peter Straub

“Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.”

Real Moments Happens Wish Magic Real Life Contradiction Fleeting Moments Magic Moments

Book:Jane Seymour's Guide to Romantic Living

Source: Jane Seymour's Guide to Romantic Living

“If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.”

Ifs World Two Would Be Fighting Asks Wish Magic Disease Harmony Extras Genies Muscular Dystrophy

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.”

Ifs Knows World Made Real Reality Wish Secret Magic Psychedelic Mind Blowing Psychedelic Experience Blowing It

Author:Terence McKenna

“Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others.”

Wish Magic Air Scene Shapes Mountain Like Me Drunk Fantastic Length Valleys Desolate Invigorating

Author:Mikhail Lermontov

“Orion brightened. "I have an idea." "Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained. "Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other.”

Ifs Looks Mean Said Ideas Body Wish Magic Stones Naked Mysterious Grants Sparks Daring Artemis Fowl Artemis Fowl Orion Birthmarks

Author:Eoin Colfer

“Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.”

“Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.”

People Ifs Helping Use Problem Bigs Wish Can Do Magic Larks

Author:Tamora Pierce

“Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only creatures who had to manage such strong impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action. Witchcraft was different- that took spells and rituals. But magic? A wish, a need, a hunger too strong to be denied- these could turn into deeds when they cross a witch’s mind.”

Needs Mind Different Action Desire Turns Strong Wish Risk Magic Blood Creatures Crosses Hunger Deeds Manage Vampire Impulse Ritual Witch Spells Denied Qualified Witchcraft Matthew

Author:Deborah Harkness

“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”

Wish Magic False Hope

Book:Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

“I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach the circus. To visit the circus again, if only in their minds, when they are unable to attend it physically. I relay it through printed words on crumpled newsprint, words that they can read again and again, returning to the circus whenever they wish, regardless of time of day or physical location. Transporting them at will. When put that way, it sounds rather like magic, doesn't it? p.369”

Ifs Thinking Way Mind Wish Sound Magic Reader Again And Again Location Routes Circus Printed Gateways Time Of Day Relays Printed Word

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.”

World Way Happens Wish Magic Praying Herbs

Book:The Lady of the Rivers

Source: The Lady of the Rivers

“Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.”

Wish Magic

Author:Laini Taylor

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