#wishing

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass - to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#dreamers #dreams #fantasy #goal-setting #goals

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft. ↗

— Eugen Herrigel

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So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart. ↗

— Tina Turner

#ago #because #been #came #could

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech. ↗

— Auberon Waugh

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I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#everybody #i #i wish #into #love

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength. ↗

— Dennis Nilsen

#burden #could #easing #feeling #forever