#wish

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something. ↗

— Paul Mazursky

#because #convinced #definite #direct #else

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling. ↗

— Catherine McAuley

#accomplish #anything #difficult #feeling #how

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc. ↗

— George Seaton

#aunt #autobiographies #clever #clever people #distinctly

I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now. ↗

— Roger McGough

#i wish #now #used #whimsical #wish

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. ↗

— Menander

#wish

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#cabinet #enemy #i #minister #prime

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world. ↗

— Warren Mitchell

#baptists #being #capable #catholics #destroying

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#been #better #did #i #i wish

To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released. ↗

— Jack Nance

#great #had #i #just #never

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#century #early #freedom #immigrants #jewish