#wishes

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course. ↗

— Stephen Spender

#course #dreams #high #horse #i

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#bride #corpse #ever #good #good wishes

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. ↗

— James Buchan

#altogether #between #both #cities #distinction

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#desires #different #heart #other #plans

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#before #clear #done #god #him

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts. ↗

— John Calvin

#blessings #exceed #expect #god #his

Where there is great love, there are always wishes. ↗

— Willa Cather

#always #great #great love #love #where

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#live #power #then #wishes

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#heart #man #mere #ought #scientific

There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#coastal #communities #dependence #doubt #drilling