#wish

I'm half Jewish half WASP. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #jewish #wasp

The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#after #came #chronicle #first #grew

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts. ↗

— America Ferrera

#behind #big #definitely #facts #grandfather

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#boston #chicago #clue #get #into

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#author #avoid #being #course #day

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

#impossibilities #learned #merely #things #which

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#change #civil #condition #custom #important

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#disguised #form #hate #himself #love

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#class #cloak #dagger #effective #employment

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better. ↗

— Claudius

#evil #good #nothing #wish