#wish

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#define #disappointed #elections #fulfilled #had

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#both #definition #directed #gays #great

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#arms #his #i #iran #just

I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers. ↗

— Linda Ronstadt

#get #had #i #i wish #much

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#behind #bush #helping #important #kind

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics. ↗

— Elihu Root

#characteristics #contribute #departure #fact #human

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#clothes #contained #degradation #every #feeds

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#live #living #others #selfishness #wishes

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. ↗

— Aristotle

#friends #fruit #quick #ripening #slow

More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager. ↗

— Walt Alston

#anyone #else #hank #hank aaron #i