#wishes

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. ↗

— Sophocles

#become #cure #diseased #evils #man

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes? ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#state #why #wishes

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#decision #definite #doubtless #english #even

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#discover #happily #her #how #man

Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#wishes #change

The stove, she knew, wished it were a volcano, the humble teaspoons wished they were steamshovels, and the sink wished it were a well so all the others could have their wishes. Yet they all stayed exactly the same no matter what they wished, no matter what they saw and heard. ↗

— Georgess McHargue

#childhood #time #wishes #change

A los mortales os hace falta compañía porque tenéis tristeza, deseos y un tiempo limitado de vida. ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#time #wishes #death

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. ↗

— Walt Disney Company

#disney #disneyland #dreams #fantasy #hearts

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. ↗

— Voltaire

#man #moment #wishes

consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late ↗

— Alexandra Potter

#wants #wishes #life