#wishes

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ↗

— Dennis Gabor

#archetypal #damages #evils #important #longer

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. ↗

— Carlo Goldoni

#them #use #wanting #wishes

Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore. ↗

— Wild Bill Hickok

#breathe #darling #even #firing #gently

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling. ↗

— Catherine McAuley

#accomplish #anything #difficult #feeling #how

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

#against #alternative #because #done #exercise

World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#endeavors #happily-ever-after #love #richelle #richelle-goodrich

May Light always surround you; Hope kindle and rebound you. May your Hurts turn to Healing; Your Heart embrace Feeling. May Wounds become Wisdom; Every Kindness a Prism. May Laughter infect you; Your Passion resurrect you. May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires. Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire. ↗

— D. Simone

#cheer-up #courage #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #life

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely. ↗

— Iain Pears

#cloud-cuckoo-land #desires #dreams #futility #imagination

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#equal #expense #expenses #i #i am

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#introduction #japanese #made #may #opium