Wish Quotes - Page 178

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.

In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.

I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.

I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and—appraised it—and taxed it—and licensed it—and staled it!

It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.

God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too.

What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.

What ardently we wish, we soon believe.

Wishing of all employments is the worst

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

It is impossible to reduce, or, at least, to hold a distant country against the wishes and efforts of its inhabitants.

I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.