Time flows like a river, and we all wish we were like salmon that can swim against it. Life's too grizzly for it to be that easy.
Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?
A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too.
To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.
Those who buy in to global warming wish to drastically curb human economic and industrial activities, regardless of the consequences for people, especially the poor.
We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest.
There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.
Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.
If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position
So many wish for magic so many beg for fame, but if you could manifest anything you want life would be a boring game.
It is easy to wish ill on others whom we feel deserve it, but remember that when you point a finger at another, three more are pointed back at you.
But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Love yourself enough to give what matters every chance of working by communicating as well as you possibly can, and trying for as long as you wish.
The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.
An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.
