Wish Quotes - Page 73

I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I've held an American passport and I've spent my whole adult life in between New York and LA. So I feel like an American... and I also feel like a Canadian! I wish more people were dual citizens and then I wouldn't feel like such a freak.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I'll make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.

The totalitarians in the world are very, very small. Only the smallest part of humanity wishes and acts upon the destruction of others. The pluralists are far larger. Those of us who believe in a world where we live together - we're far larger. The problem is we haven't made our case compelling across the world yet.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

Stress is caused by our resistance to what already is. Even our difficulties we need to accept. My greatest wish is to do God's will.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

It should be pointed out that some of the things done after the arrest of the Gang of Four were inconsistent with Chairman Mao's wishes, for instance, the construction of the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. He had proposed in the fifties that we should all be cremated when we died and that only our ashes be kept, that no remains should be preserved and no tombs built.

If you knew that miracles could happen, what miracles would you wish for? If you knew that you could have it all and do anything you wanted, what would you choose to have and what would you choose to do?

Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.

The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten, Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land! * * * * * Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.