#wish

The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing. ↗

— David Selby

#because #had #hung #i #i wish

I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#down #enough #face #faces #father

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue. ↗

— Martin Short

#father #had #i #irish #irish catholic

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center. ↗

— Maria Shriver

#always #buts #center #family #front

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#comes #course #death #gifted #him

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#preserve #secret #up #wish #wrap

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#listening #newspapers #nothing #put #say

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

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#annual #atonement #came #day #decisive

I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV. ↗

— John Sweeney

#bbc #been #career #could #end