#wish

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible. ↗

— Robert Southey

#doing #first #first step #impossible #mind

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#forms #suppress #terror #those #truth

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#different #different kind #different kinds #frank #i

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#began #christians #crowd #define #did

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#difficulty #him #literature #mean #precisely

As long as these blood brothers are our leaders, and as long as your party officials are Jewish lackeys, you will be no threat to the big money men. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#blood #brothers #jewish #lackeys #leaders

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#believe #buddhist #catholic #family #i

I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made. ↗

— Heather Graham

#driven #female #films #i #i wish

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#foreign trade #once #open #ports #trade

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. ↗