#wishes

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#hanged #rich #who #will #wishes

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. ↗

— George Washington

#adopted #i #i can #i do #living

Weetzie could see him--it was a man, a little man in a turban, with a jewel in his nose, harem pants, and curly-toed slippers. "Lanky Lizards!" Weetzie exclaimed. "Greetings," said the man in an odd voice, a rich, dark purr. "Oh, shit!" Weetzie said. "I beg your pardon? Is that your wish? ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#funny #genies #humor #weetzie-bat #wishes

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life. ↗

— Charlie Byrd

#design #how #life #living #make

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#any #every #every man #everywhere #had

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. ↗

— Ovid

#fears #man #perish #whom #wishes

Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and.... I'm Mrs. Cibrian! ↗

— LeAnn Rimes

#blessed #eddie #i #lovely #mrs

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#always #artists #details #few #his

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

— Antonin Scalia

#state #why #wishes

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