I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising’s biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything. – Jef I. Richards
Until the building of Solomon’s temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand. – Julius Wellhausen
I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out. – Judith Light
I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European. – Lasse Hallstrom
I wish that Iraq had not happened – and that we had not lost touch with so many of our natural supporters. But this should have provided an opportunity for the Liberal Democrats as a party. Yet their protest gains are now diminishing. – Lucy Powell
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating. – Linda McCartney
I don’t wish hardship on anybody. My background was one of being very difficult, very hard, and they were subject to the times I lived in. I wouldn’t wish that on anybody. – Kerry Stokes
I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions. – Julie Harris
My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It’s something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs. – Kate Voegele
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend. – John Owen
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large. – Kenzaburo Oe
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
I heard I won ‘best butt crack’ on television recently. It’s true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it’s a closed set. – Lisa Edelstein
Judges should interpret the laws according to what they say, not according to what the judges wish they would say. Judges are supposed to interpret the laws; they are not supposed to make them. – Joan Larsen
What we have, what we wish we had – ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost – these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us. – Mitt Romney
When you really can’t affect something, you almost don’t wanna wish too hard, because it’s just frustrating. – John Oates
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich. – Muhammad Ali
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. – Karl Radek
I wish there were two of me and 48-hour days so I could get everything done. But for me, I have to not try and think that everything has to be 100% perfect all the time and leave room for error. As long as my kids feel loved and a priority, everything really is secondary. – Jessica Alba
If you fall then that’s not all… if you wish to be down then stay down… if you wish to be up then get up. – Janice Markowitz
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society. – Jean-Francois Lyotard