“It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 110
Variant translation: It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Numbered fragments
United in Purpose's " Rediscover God In America http://rediscovergodinamerica.com/" conference, March 2011 <br class="br">Mike Huckabee Wants People To Be Forced to Listen To David Barton At Gunpoint <br class="br">2011-03-24 <br class="br">0:56 <br class="br">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mwGYr0OWzw <br class="br">2011-04-02
“It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 110
Variant translation: It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Numbered fragments
Michele Bachmann (1956) American politician
on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews, October 17, 2008 http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=2203 <br class="br">on whether there are anti-American members of Congress <br class="br">2000s, Hardball Appearance (October 2008)
William Nicholson (1948) British screenwriter, playwright and novelist
Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), The Wind Singer (Book 1), p. 42
“I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.”
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
John Barrowman (1967) Scottish-American actor, singer, dancer, musical theatre performer, writer and television personality
Taste of My Life BBC2 (2008)
“Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.”
Will Christopher Baer (1966) American writer
“I wish they would take me as I am.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)
On attempts at an alcohol prohibition amendment, in his Diary (9 October 1883)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)