Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
~ Willa Cather
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
~ Klaus Kinski
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
~ Martin Luther
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
~ John Calvin
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
~ Ovid
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
~ Aldous Huxley
A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
~ Charlie Byrd
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
~ José Martí
We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
~ Henry Knox
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
~ Alfred Nobel
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
~ Ludwig Von Mises
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
~ George A. Sheehan
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
