When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?
And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.
I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
I wish I could have skipped college.
I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.
I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.
When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.
People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'
I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it.
Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.
Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
I wish I could have been more enlightened at 18 and learned more about men because I could have avoided all the traps.
I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.
I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.
But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.
I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.
I wish I had a funny story.
No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
You should never look at somebody and say, 'I wish I had their life,' because you never really know what struggles they're going through.
I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.
I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I'd discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, 'Damn - I'm too old for this.'
I wish for a world that gets that your 'I Can' is exponentially more important than your IQ.
The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.
I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.
So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.
The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.
But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
