#wish

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#balancing #cling #competing #disturbed #economy

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.' ↗

— Howard K. Smith

#controversial #during #had #hitler #i

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#craftsman #finished #great #kept #love

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them. ↗

— Maria Monk

#course #did #duty #everything #faithful

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#forget #intensely #memory #nothing #thing

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#live #lives #love #more #natures

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#i #i wish #ideals #never #old

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#beyond #heard #hopes #lecturer #public

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#behave #believe #black #country #jewish

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#black #conflict #convinced #country #event