#wish

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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#his #indifference #james #james joyce #joyce

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#gentiles #human #jew #jewish #law

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#how #i #i wish #laws #lived

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.' ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#bad review #behind #called #could #critic

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#ambitious #any #i #i wish #just

As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#certainly #confirmed #i #individual #individualist

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#every #every man #live #long #man

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career. ↗

— Helen Suzman

#considerable #considerable number #electorate #had #i

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