#wish

Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it. ↗

— Richard Morris Hunt

#best #build #chimney #down #following

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language. ↗

— Kim Hunter

#communicate #could #delightful #felt #go

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#been #celebrate #century #community #east

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#mistrust #must #past #present #provide

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#dead #decently #i #i do #language

My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.' ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#eaten #get #god #had #hadn

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. ↗

— John Paul Jones

#connection #does #fast #go #harm

I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard. ↗

— Bill Joy

#i #i wish #keyboard #keys #used

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#die #first #signs #understanding #wish

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future. ↗

— Louise J. Kaplan

#between #cling #emotional #equally #eternal