#wish

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. ↗

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#children #education #enacted #excluded #followed

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#nothing #nowadays #once #pretext #profound

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#both #bound #duty #either #equally

I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since. ↗

— Fisher Stevens

#american woman #angry #been #born #i

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her. ↗

— Joss Stone

#aretha franklin #franklin #her #i #i wish

Sometimes I wish I could get fired. ↗

— Matt Stone

#fired #get #i #i wish #sometimes

No wise man ever wished to be younger. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#man #wise #wise man #wished #younger

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. ↗