#wish

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#cannot #duty #language #less #more

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic. ↗

— Spike Lee

#cannot #character #film #jewish #labeled

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#escape #feared #feeling #hated #i

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#already #beginning #come #culture #force

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#emotion #energy #i #i wish #land

The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#background #being #black #blacks #common

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#ever #go #hungry #hurt #impulse

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ↗

— Max Lerner

#call #end #in the end #loudly #may

John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish I'd had the chance to make more music with him, of course, and to get to know him better. ↗

— Tony Levin

#chance #course #fun #get #great

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit. ↗