Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic
Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.
. . . sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.
We cannot disrespect the wishes of states.
All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers. If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants.
We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.
aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.
The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if heshe wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.
If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.
I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was funny. What would he write? "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?"
Many dreams is what we had and plenty wishes.
If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.
National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it recognises the simple fact that no war would be likely to substantially to ameliorate the state of distress in Europe. The distress would probably be made the greater thereby. If only the leaders and rulers had wanted peace, the people would never have wished for war.
If you live in the [Middle East] area, you see [U. S actions] as part of a continuing drive for dominance, and with it a kind of obduracy, a stubborn opposition to the wishes and desires and aspirations of the people there.
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.
There is a limit to how much a seer wishes to see.