One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
I had no plans of any destination. I wish to flow like a river.
Follow your heart.
In every possibility of a mind May you travel, yet not blind. As a head filled with imagination, Goes a heart full of gold creation, It's never late to have a dream. Nor is it so far away as it seems, And, like a rearview mirror reveals, Thus a fantasy soon becomes real. It may be closer than it appears. Or at least it will show up clear. Never give up a dream for fear!
I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in., March 9, 1998]
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.
Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.