#wishing

What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years. ↗

— David Miliband

#big #britain #build #cultural #democratic

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#craftsman #finished #great #kept #love

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

#becomes #discovery #enriched #every #first

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#am #else #ever #find #i

May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#wishing #humor

My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#earning #learning #life #success #wish

[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

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#away #gave #given #had #i

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one. ↗

— S. E. Hinton

#boy #condemned #feel #first #i

Be not wishing and pining, but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret." - from "Dimpellumpzki ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#contentment #gratefulness #longing #pine #pining