Wish Quotes - Page 37

• It is manifestly idiotic to believe that Israel, with five million Jewish citizens and one million Arab citizens, will concede to the return of four million refugees. It will not happen. We can wish it, we can think it's just, that it's moral - it will not happen. No country commits suicide.

  Uri Avnery

  Suicide, Country, Believe

  Source: progressive.org

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• Unfortunately, I never played an instrument. I can't blame my parents, but I wish I had had music lessons. It's odd because I think I have a good sense of rhythm, as they say in some fields. But I don't know anything about music.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Thinking, Parent, Lessons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The government of Mexico is terrific. I don't blame them for what's happened. I don't blame them for taking advantage of the United States. I wish our politicians were so smart.

  Donald Trump

  Smart, Government, United States

  "Donald Trump holds first news conference since election". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2017.

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• John Cryan and I worked together at UBS, and I think John is one smart, hardworking individual, and I wouldn't bet against John. I wish him well.

  Ken Moelis

  Smart, Thinking, Together

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• 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.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Memorial, Ashes, Done

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Originally when we talked about language disorder it was a catastrophic language disorder. It's substantial, and from a treatment standpoint it's okay to keep diluting that term, but from a research standpoint we need to be much more precise. I wish somebody would take up the mantle of just that particular task.

  Darold Treffert

  Tasks, Needs, Research

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part II: D". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 13, 2011.

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• I certainly wished I hadn't stressed quite as much or had such insecurity at times. I wish I had trusted my instincts on some occasions when I didn't and I wish I had listened to better advice when I didn't. But overall, I have to look at the glass as half full and acknowledge that I am all of the moments of my life, the good and the not so good.

  Kylie Minogue

  Glasses, Advice, Insecurity

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I wish and pray there are a lot of young people with technology and way of thinking that can create a brand new kind of musical theatre.

  Claude-Michel Schonberg

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.

  Arundhati Roy

  Eye, Thinking, Looks

  Source: progressive.org

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• For me, language is about the impossibility of communicating what we precisely wish to communicate and this gorgeous attempt that we make to do that anyway. I love that we will never say exactly what we mean, but we will forever keep trying.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Mean, Forever, Trying

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• We often think that "bad" relationships are motivating by self-loathing or a wish for self-destruction, but I think that loving people who hurt us is more tied to a profound and earnest wish to soothe ourselves and recover from older hurts. And I've also found that having empathy for that urge is the best way to move through it, and beyond it.

  Melissa Febos

  Hurt, Moving, Bad Relationship

  Source: therumpus.net

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• First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Two, Focus

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.

  Lena Dunham

  World

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Heavy petting, that was fun! That was good. And frankly, you know I wish kids would go back to it. It's very satisfying. And it's not as scary. So many girls, you know this. I mean they are having what we call sex. Right? They're having intercourse. They don't want to, they don't get anything out of it.

  Judy Blume

  Girl, Sex, Fun

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The biggest fear that everybody has is dying. Not to get too meta on you, but I think every fear that people are trying to work out is really like I'm going to die and no one is going to care, and it doesn't matter because God might not exist. That's what people are trying to figure out. I wish we all had one fear so we could think about it together and figure out a solution, but we're all doing different things.

  Lena Dunham

  Thinking, People, Work Out

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there. And I think if they take up this role seriously and link it to the kind of changes were wish to bring about in our country they could be a tremendous help.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• Reductionist ideology not only hinders biologists from thinking adequately about the phenomena we wish to understand: it has two important social consequences: it serves to relocate social problems to the individual rather than exploring the societal roots and determinants of a phenomenon; and second, it diverts attention and funding from the social to the molecular.

  Steven Rose

  Thinking, Two, Roots

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• I wish I knew how to sleep late! I generally wake horribly early, often with a head full of thoughts and deadlines that propel me to my computer.

  Catherine Mayer

  Sleep, Computer, Late

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Top of my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.

  Joe Hart

  Play, Clubs, Want

  Source: www.bbc.com

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• As Gandhi famously responded when asked about "Western civilization," "I wish they had one," the same applies to "international community": "I wish there was one."

  Richard A. Falk

  Civilization, Community, Western

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You're lucky if you reach the point where you go, "OK, I have a wonderful life ...I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what's to complain about?" But I think you have to get there... And it's taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I'm like, "I'm very lucky, I'm lucky, I'm blessed" - all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you're young, you just don't listen.

  Boy George

  Beautiful, Sweet, Blessed

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say "happy birthday" to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.

  Boy George

  Mom, Good Luck, Media

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Flower, Cutting, Perfect

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Drunk, Nuisance

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• There are laws in some countries, I believe, which prohibit anyone from following you in the street, and if someone does, he can be arrested and put into prison. So, spiritually, I wish there were a police system which would put people into a spiritual prison for following others. In fact, it does happen automatically.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Country, Believe

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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