#wishes

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest. ↗

— Charles Tupper

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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#enemy #mouths #sent #sign #their

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#hanged #rich #who #will #wishes

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. ↗

— George Washington

#adopted #i #i can #i do #living

At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect. ↗

— Jack Wild

#briefly #end #hollywood #i #immature

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#history #i #long-standing #respecting #wishes

We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#avoid #business #countries #honor #interfering

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#chooses #destiny #every #every man #everywhere

Weetzie could see him--it was a man, a little man in a turban, with a jewel in his nose, harem pants, and curly-toed slippers. "Lanky Lizards!" Weetzie exclaimed. "Greetings," said the man in an odd voice, a rich, dark purr. "Oh, shit!" Weetzie said. "I beg your pardon? Is that your wish? ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#funny #genies #humor #weetzie-bat #wishes

He dabbed at his tuxedo with a damp rag, and the fungi came away easily. "Hate to do this, Bill," he said of the fungi he was murdering. "Fungi have as much right to life as I do. they know what they want, Bill. Damned if I do anymore." Then he thought about what Bill himself might want. It was easy to guess. "Bill," he said, "I like you so much, and I am such a big shot in the Universe, that I will make your three biggest wishes come true." He opened the door of the cage, something Bill couldn't have done in a thousand years. Bill flew over to the windowsill. He put his little shoulder against the glass. there was just one layer of glass between Bill and the great out-of-doors. Although Trough was in the storm window business, he had no storm windows on his own abode. "Your second wish is about to come true," said Trout, and he again did something which Bill could never have done. he opened the window. But the opening of the window was such an alarming business to the parakeet that he flew back to his cage and hopped inside. Trout closed the door of the cage and latched it. "That's the most intelligent use of three wishes I ever heard of," he told the bird. "You made sure you'd still have something worth wishing for--to get out of the cage. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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