#wishes

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#life #sky #travel #wishes #life

Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#after #ails #designed #election #fix

You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough that I can use my wand to make it happen. Oh, and recently there's been a ban on inserting yourself into the Twilight series. The Cullens are tired of different teenage girls pinging into their story every time they turn around. ↗

— Janette Rallison

#magic #twilight #wishes #humor

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998] ↗

— Toni Morrison

#exclusion #inspiration #paradises #utopias #wishes

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#truth #wishes #bad

[T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering--not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're askin. And when you ask, you're trying. And all anyone can do really is try, right? ↗

— Melissa Senate

#trying #wishes #wishing #love

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#been #could #i #late #me

Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#administration #closest #effort #familiar #his

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#better #hates #information #inquire #know

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#any #enemy #even #executed #fire