#wishes

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#every #every man #live #long #man

I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#regrets #wishes #imagination

Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#wishes #wishes

When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#wish #wishes #love

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

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

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari. ↗

— Gilles Villeneuve

#drive #ferrari #first #formula #formula 1