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"The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved."
"I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But unfortunately you're stuck with what you're born with."
"I don't wanna believe that racism exists, but the more I wish it away, the more I realize it's in our system."
"I wish I could have a clone to do all the stuff that I don't like doing, like the red carpet stuff."
"The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation."
"Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it."
"I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid."
"Long, long time ago, I declared that all my works are a form of a prayer/a wish."
"Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be."
"You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through."
"All wishes create an upswing line when it is manifested. Therefore, together, it becomes an incredible upswing of power, whatever you wished. Of course, the more high level wishes, which covers the whole human race is stronger than wishing for getting ice cream for your dessert!"
"I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement."
"So ... will you stay with me until it's over? Please?" "Kaylee, I would do anything for the girl who granted my dying wish."
"I am for God, I am the lover of God, I am loved by God, I am the servant of God, I am the servant of the servant of God, and I am the well-wishing instrument of God's love towards every living being, with all humility. The emergence of that realization is the greatest attainment in life."
"What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish."
"I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like he can't bear to take his hand away, I don't wish I was any different."
"I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say."
"I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't."
"Germany is a capitalist state nurtured carefully and brought back to prosperity by the United States, and it is very loyal to the United States. I don't even think the Germans enjoy full sovereignty. There are some things which they cannot do if the United States doesn't wish them to do it."
"That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity."
