“People whose wishes get granted often don't turn out to be very nice people.”
Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad
Source: Witches Abroad
“Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?”
Montaigne; or, The Skeptic
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
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“I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.”
Ingrid Newkirk (1949) British-American activist
"National Animal Rights Convention", 1997 June 27.
On animal research and activism against it
Colette Dowling (1938)
Source: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence (1981), pp. 69–70
“Open Sesame — I want to get out.”
Stanisław Jerzy Lec book Unkempt Thoughts
http://books.google.com/books?id=NTtiAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Open+Sesame%22+%22want+to+get+out%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage p. 160 <br class="br">Unkempt Thoughts (1957)
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book III, Ch. 5
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“When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.”
Twyla Tharp (1941) American choreographer
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life