#wishes

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#destiny #give #grants #order #our

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#hide #keep #must #possesses #secret

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#else #happens #knows #man #neither

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#horses #nets #ride #throwing #were

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course. ↗

— Stephen Spender

#course #dreams #high #horse #i

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#bride #corpse #ever #good #good wishes

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#before #clear #done #god #him

Where there is great love, there are always wishes. ↗

— Willa Cather

#always #great #great love #love #where

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#live #power #then #wishes

There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#coastal #communities #dependence #doubt #drilling