Be Careful What You Wish For/Quotes
An elderly man was sitting alone on a dark path, right? He wasn't certain of which direction to go, and he'd forgotten both where he was traveling to and who he was. He'd sat down for a moment to rest his weary legs, and suddenly looked up to see an elderly woman before him. She grinned toothlessly and with a cackle, spoke: 'Now your third wish. What will it be?' —Morte's Story, as told in the Brothel of Slaking Intellectual Lusts, Planescape: Torment
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"All get what they want in the end. They do not always like it." —Aslan, The Magician's Nephew
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"You got what you wanted! |
Be careful what you wish for, 'cause you just might get it; You just might get it; You just might get it (get it). —"When I Grow Up", The Pussycat Dolls
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Don't wish for elephants unless you own a zoo, |
Careful what you wish —"King Nothing", Metallica
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"When the gods want to punish you, they answer your prayers." —Karen Blixen, Out of Africa[1]
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Not so fast, Jafar, aren't you forgetting something? You wanted to be a genie, you got it. Everything that goes with it! |
You'd better watch out —"Celebrity Skin", Hole
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- "I wish, more than anything, more than life..." —Everyone from Into the Woods, generally right before It Got Worse
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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way'." —C. S. Lewis, writing about Hell
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Isn't that what you wanted? That's what you said, anyway . . . all that I did was grant you your wish, doctor. |
"Every wish that does not fit within the bounds of reason inevitably gives birth to some kind of distortion. It is an obvious conclusion that the outcome would be the worst. If you consider that a betrayal, then making wishes is a mistake to begin with." —"Kyuubey, Puella Magi Madoka Magica
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I wanted all the attention, and instead it was going to you! I even started hoping that you would do something silly, so your modeling career would be over, but then, when it started happening, all I could think was, how could I want you to fail at something you love so much? —Rarity, to Fluttershy, from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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You finally have everything you ever wanted. Call me when you get over it. —Stacy Hirano, Phineas and Ferb, "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted"
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"I just wanted to warn you about it. It only has a few wishes available per person, and ..." —Case Study: How Not To Wish, a few pages before Bob inadvertently merges himself with a girl's vagina
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"You might want to be careful with your third wish. Otherwise you might wish you'd never been born." —Jafar, Aladdin
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"Sometimes the most sadistic thing the DM can do to is to let the players have their own way." |
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