#wish

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster. ↗

— William Throsby Bridges

#disaster #doing #first #first step #make

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#diversity #enjoy #ethnic #food #had

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#merely #prayer #simplest #turned #wish

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#bred #gap #illusion #reality #wish

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. ↗

— James Buchan

#altogether #between #both #cities #distinction

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment. ↗

— James Buchan

#anyway #away #cannot #enlightenment #eu

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#concept #defining #feminism #gave #gift

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#desires #different #heart #other #plans

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#consider #father #great #holdings #i

I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment. ↗

— Delta Burke

#choreography #clumsy #could #had #i