#wish

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#desire #everything #hope #keen #point

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#firearms #germans #guns #having #join

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#for the people #i #immortal #kindly #me

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cause #endangered #good #good cause #gravely

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dictators #i #power #remove #should

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#another #apparently #bad #charge #credit

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#did #done #i #left #look

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. ↗

— David Hockney

#because #bother #could #go #good

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#am #devoutly #expected #happy #i