#wishes

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

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I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

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Ideas any one can mould as he wishes. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#regrets #wishes #imagination

Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#wishes #wishes

If it's the beaches If it's the beaches' sands you want then you will have them If it's the mountains' bending rivers then you will have them If it's the wish to run away Then I will grant it ↗

— Avett Brothers

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