“In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.”

— Elizabeth Kostova , book The Swan Thieves

Source: The Swan Thieves

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American writer 1964

Bill Bailey (Spanish Civil War veteran) (1910–1995) American labor activist

The Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography by Bill Bailey (1993)

“I wish- I wish I could dry these tears, I wish I could make this better for you. But I don't know how.”

Juliet Marillier book Son of the Shadows

Source: Son of the Shadows

“I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then
I wish I could start this whole thing over again
I'm not sayin' it's you could never be true
I just don't wanna know how it ends
You'd still have my heart in the palm of your hands
I'd still look like a fool in front of your friends
Yeah I wish somehow I didn't know now what I didn't know then.”

Toby Keith (1961) American country music singer and actor

Wish I Didn't Know Now.
Song lyrics, Toby Keith (1993)

“If I was not fighting against child labor, I don't know what else I could do. It was always in my heart, I could not live without that”

Kailash Satyarthi (1954) Indian children's rights activist

As quoted in "Person of the Week: Kailash Satyarthi" by Peter Jennings, at ABC News (14 May 2004) http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=131826&page=1
Context: If I was not fighting against child labor, I don't know what else I could do. It was always in my heart, I could not live without that … It's really a kind of spiritual feeling which is difficult to explain … And the smiles come on the face of the children when they realize that they are free. … When you are living in a globalized economy and a globalized world, you cannot live in isolation, all the problems and solutions are interconnected, and so the problem of child labor in any part of the world is your problem. … The world should have one thing in mind — if the children are exploited in any part of the world, if the children are deprived of their childhood in any part of the world, the world cannot live in peace … The world cannot be human.