#wish

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. ↗

— Menander

#wish

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#cabinet #enemy #i #minister #prime

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world. ↗

— Warren Mitchell

#baptists #being #capable #catholics #destroying

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#been #better #did #i #i wish

To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released. ↗

— Jack Nance

#great #had #i #just #never

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#century #early #freedom #immigrants #jewish

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#let us #since #us #wish

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

#candidates #consideration #express #given #most

I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night. ↗

— Ozzy Osbourne

#every night #i #i wish #iron #iron man

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some. ↗

— Adam Pascal

#had #i #i wish #ignorance #ignorance is bliss