#wish

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. ↗

— Richard Burton

#islands #large #little #look #prisons

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#get #into #keep #main #mine

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#before #clear #done #god #him

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#best #himself #his #inspires #listener

Men willingly believe what they wish. ↗

— Julius Caesar

#men #willingly #wish

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts. ↗

— John Calvin

#blessings #exceed #expect #god #his

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#may #merely #more #perfectly #property

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else. ↗

— Drew Carey

#else #i #show #something #wish

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name. ↗

— Drew Carey

#change #fresh #fresh start #head #i

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#am #calling #doll #edwardian #features