#wish

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it. ↗

— George Washington

#distinguished #first #force #greater #instances

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it. ↗

— John Waters

#i wish #maybe #me #something #then

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#another #calvin #calvin and hobbes #dead #five

If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#future #growth #highly #increasingly #industries

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#concerned #every #every man #his #i

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#check #even #genealogy #going #got

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#back #child #feel #find #hadn

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. ↗

— Orson Welles

#dumb enough #enough #i #intelligent #intelligent people

There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way. ↗

— Timothy West

#after #before #dinner #everybody #house

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. ↗

— Richard Whately

#his #side #truth #wishes