The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.
Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.
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.
Many thanks for all of the love and good wishes sent our way from my friends out there in cartoon land... the only place where a nine month pregnant woman can still play a hot goth chick in a belly shirt!
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.
Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
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.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.