#wishing

What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years. ↗

— David Miliband

#big #britain #build #cultural #democratic

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#balancing #cling #competing #disturbed #economy

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

#becomes #discovery #enriched #every #first

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. ↗

— Aristotle

#friends #fruit #quick #ripening #slow

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#am #else #ever #find #i

In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator. ↗

— Pir Vilayat Khan

#because #consciousness #creator #dream #experience

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#control #definitely #doing #end #fact

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#feel #just #just do it #like #out

May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#wishing #humor

[T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering--not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're askin. And when you ask, you're trying. And all anyone can do really is try, right? ↗

— Melissa Senate

#trying #wishes #wishing #love