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“Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.”

Should Enough Politics Wish Goal Term Results Principles Ideals Ultimate Debate Pursue Thanks Granted Opponents Destination Spells Revealing Defining Predictable Negligence

Author:Joseph Sobran

“No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.”

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep... an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home... [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.”

Mean Littles Enough Home Wish Trials Granted Uncles Embarrassing Creeps Spirited Anomalies Mean Spirited Grover

Author:Tucker Carlson

“I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.”

Use Wish Strength Youth Granted Elephants

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.”

Wish Magic Granted Routine Procedures

Author:Mason Cooley

“A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.”

Years Stills Wish Late Granted Birthday Wishes

Author:R. K. Milholland

“True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.”

Men Desire Given Heaven Wish Fantasy Fire Hot True Love Granted Fierce

Book:The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations

Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations

“No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.”

Life Writing Believe Has Beens Belief Wish Numbers Alive Poet Granted Novelists

Author:W. H. Auden