
“All of us wish we had an Alice. I wish I had an Alice.”
(Referring to her character on The Brady Bunch) in People magazine in 1992
Source: Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
“All of us wish we had an Alice. I wish I had an Alice.”
(Referring to her character on The Brady Bunch) in People magazine in 1992
“Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them.”
Letter to Sisters at Saint Mary's, 1848.
Context: Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.
Letter to Sisters at Saint Mary's, 1848.
“That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.”
reprinted in 'Zero', ed. Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, Cambridge, Mass; MIT Press 1973, p. 120
Quotes, 1960's, untitled statements in 'Zero 3', (1961)
Girl, Interrupted (1994)
“Not what we wish, but what we want,
Oh, let thy grace supply!”
Hymn, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let not that happen which I wish, but that which is right", Menander, Fragment.