“I'm glad whenever they cut interest rates, I wish interest rates were zero.”
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
Republican presidential debate http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21221689/ (9 October 2007) <br class="br">2000s, 2007
“I'm not sorry for nothin' I've done
I'm glad I fought—I only wish we'd won”
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Honest with Me
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I'm glad I fought—I only wish we'd won" by Bob Dylan?
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American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941Related quotes
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician
"Chapin Takes 'Taxi' Wherever He Can", Rolling Stone http://harrychapin.com/articles/rsprofile.shtml (July 6, 1972)
“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.”
Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead
Source: The Fountainhead
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) German, later British Baroque composer
James Beattie, letter of May 25, 1780, published in William Forbes An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. (1806) p. 331.
In reply to Lord Kinnoull, who had complimented him on his Messiah, "the noble entertainment which he had lately given the town". Beattie had this on the authority of Kinnoull himself.
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Não sou nada.
Nunca serei nada.
Não posso querer ser nada.
À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.
Álvaro de Campos (heteronym), Tabacaria ["The Tobacconist's" or "The Tobacco Shop"] (15 January 1928)
Variant translations:
I am nothing.
Never shall be anything.
Cannot will to be anything.
This apart, I have in me all the dreams of the world.
trans. Jonathan Griffin, in Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 1974), p. 111
I am not nothing.
I will never be nothing.
I cannot ever want to be nothing.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams of the world.
In Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 649
I am nothing.
I shall never be anything.
I cannot even wish to be anything.
Apart from this, I have within me all the dreams of the world.
Variant: I am nothing.
I will never be anything.
I cannot wish to be anything.
Bar that, I have in me all the dreams of the world.
Frankie Boyle (1972) Scottish comedian
Stand-up, Excited for You to See and Hate This (2020)
