Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
With 'Sin Nombre,' there are parts that I wish were longer. And with 'Jane Eyre' especially, there were parts that I had to compress that I thought it would have been really nice to spend more time with - to spend with the characters.
I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
As a Senator from Rhode Island, I wish that once - just once - the fossil fuel industry and their paid-for PR machine would concede that burning their product causes real harm to other people.
I wish I could understand why so many people have a nearly manic desire to excuse, defend, explain or condone evil.
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.
Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
I fangirl when I see someone famous wish me congratulations.
Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part.
I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.
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.
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Cornwall is my favourite place - I wish I could earn a living there.
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point.
