#wished

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#bankers #based #could #financing #go

I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#canned #end #even #explain #had

I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington. ↗

— Janet Reno

#back #climb #could #country #explore

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't. ↗

— Little Richard

#express #expression #i #i think #like

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#made #make #parents #sometimes #themselves

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#boy #cadet #consulted #corps #eager

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. ↗

— Alexander Dumas

#good #how #know #live #order

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#ceremonial #ceremonies #desire #ever #exclusively

I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes. ↗

— Michelle Kwan

#good #good wishes #got #her #i

If you wished to be loved, love. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#loved #wished #you