#wish

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#asked #certainly #concept #different #different things

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#architecture #carried #content #country #express

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service." ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #could #dance #dancer #divine

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#hundredfold #multiply #seek #something #tenfold

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#himself #wishes

I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best. ↗

— Paul Oakenfold

#endeavor #friends #i #i wish #morris

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising #conceal #i #illustrate #manufacturers

To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#depressed #eternal #eternal life #fact #forever

I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#back #i #never #take #upbringing

As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you. ↗

— Roy Orbison

#crying #hello #i #me #oh