#wishes

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. ↗

— George Orwell

#coincides #facts #foresee #future #grossly

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#happen #i #people #things #things happen

We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia. ↗

— Li Peng

#china #countries #develop #establish #friendly

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved. ↗

— Goran Persson

#alive #continue #dialogue #european #european union

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#indulge #merely #sea #standing #staring

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#calculus #deep #different #different parts #existing

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#first #happy #highest #him #made

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#any #assure #bear #burden #every

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#discover #happily #her #how #man

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#fight #must #peace #whoever #wishes