#wishes

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

#charming #differs #fact #feared #great

She didn't leave any written instructions. She has verbally expressed her wishes to me and other people. ↗

— Michael Schiavo

#expressed #her #instructions #leave #me

Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#anything #aside #bad #europe #islamists

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action. ↗

— David Seabury

#anyone #best #course #discoverable #only

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#bear #democracy #desire #different #disengagement

I'm biding my time until my real life kicks in." "How will you know when that happens?" "It will be when I no longer have a list of things I've never done. ↗

— G.J. Walker-Smith

#life #saving-wishes #things-to-do #life

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998] ↗

— Toni Morrison

#exclusion #inspiration #paradises #utopias #wishes

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. ↗

— Lucille Clifton

#celebrated #mistake #more #people #poetry

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#dad #get #gum #how #i

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ↗

— Dennis Gabor

#archetypal #damages #evils #important #longer