#wish

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#one thing #reality #thing #thinking #wishful

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#beat #custom #draw #everybody #excitement

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#deep #fun #having #having fun #i

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends. ↗

— Major Taylor

#among #beset #class #closest #closest friends

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. ↗

— William Temple

#arrows #back #believe #between #complaints

What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn't sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He's hoping that he would fight back. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#because #character #crew #fight #guy

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#any #happened #i #know #mom

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#benefit #came #end #even #father

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#human #human beings #i #kinder #like

Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#brethren #came #come #desire #did