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"If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith."
"Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia."
"My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish."
"A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities."
"You can't just wish for a better life, you must go out there and create it."
"Nature has given you everything: you have got unlimited resources. The foundations of your State have been laid, and it is now for you to build, and build as quickly and as well as you can. So go ahead and I wish you God speed."
"Most of my friends are into strange things I don't really understand - and with a few shameful exceptions I wish them all well. Who am I, after all, to tell some friend he shouldn't change his name to Oliver High, get rid of his family, and join a Satanism cult in Seattle? Or to argue with another friend who wants to buy a single-shot Remington Fireball so he can go out and shoot cops from a safe distance?"
"I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that."
"Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be."
"All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand"
"I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch."
"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."
"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."
"Look at me as many times as you wish, but you won’t get to know me! Since you have last seen me, I’ve changed a hundred times!"
"It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is."
"It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on."
"Appear as you may wish to be"
"The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system."
"Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes."
"For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground."
