“He who does not wish to die cannot have wished to live.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXX: On conquering the conqueror
“He who does not wish to die cannot have wished to live.”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXX: On conquering the conqueror
GCBC APPEAL FOR CALM https://www.cbcgha.org/index.php/2020/12/16/gcbc-appeal-for-calm/ (December 16, 2020)
Last words as quoted in The Execution of Nazi War Criminals (1946) by Kingsbury Smith of the International News Service
David Trimble in: Peace 1996-2000 http://books.google.com/books?id=zCmliED4M_UC&pg=PA114, World Scientific, 2005, p. 114
[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, Wonderful Maxims and Arts, 2005]
"President: National tradition source of our strength" https://www.prezydent.pl/en/president-komorowski/news/art,640,president-national-tradition-source-of-our-strength.html (4 June 2014)
“Idle wishing for circumstances different from what you had was a waste of time.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 20, “Tally on Down” (p. 245)
Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 6 (p. 317)
Last Speech to the National Convention (26 July 1794)
"So Many Roads" (song)
("So Many Roads" - video on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IbYJoWrOIg
(+ Lyrics version of "So Many Roads" on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBUt6gyNgQI
Studio albums, What We Made (2007)
Muhammad's teaching on wives, as given in the Traditions. Quoted from T.P. Hughes: Dictionary of Islam.
Dictionary of Islam
Marcelo H. del Pilar to José Rizal (20 July 1892)
[2014, In the Face of the Absolute, World Wisdom, 99, 978-1-936597-41-3]
God, Outline
The State of the World 2010, public lecture in New York City, USA, (July 2010)
“Then you have no more wish to rule? The country needs you now more than ever.”
She shook her head. “I’ve been crushed under the weight of power all my life. I think I’m going to enjoy missing it.” She laughed at the lightness with which she dismissed royal power. Every moment was a surprise, these days. She hoped that that feeling would never end.
Source: Ventus (2000), Chapter 45 (p. 655)
“One does not attain everything he wishes for.
Winds blow counter to what the ships desire.”
From the poem Bima At-Taʿallulu http://www.almotanabbi.com/poemPage.do?poemId=272
Predestination? On Why God Made Those Who Would Perish
“I'll let you know as soon as I wish to.”
Source: Pelosi tells Democratic leaders she wants House votes on infrastructure bills this week https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pelosi-tells-democratic-leaders-house-votes-infrastructure-bills/story?id=80971904" (November4, 2021)
Source: Immo Royal, In Belgium you can find more than 7,500 hectares of royal real estate. Journalists conducted an in-depth investigation into the patrimony of the Royal Donation for the first time in 90 years. https://www.koningshuizen.be/ King Leopold II in a letter to the Minister of Finance on April 9, 1900, in honor of his 65th birthday.
Source: Excerpts of Martial law speech (14 December 1981)
Source: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 37
A paraphrased variant of this seems to have arisen on the internet around 2007: It is ... a settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute. The United States, while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none.
1810s
Source: Message delivered to Dey Omar Agha, by Isaac Chauncey and William Shaler , summarizing the Treaty with Algiers (1815) http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/bar1815t.asp, and U.S attitudes and actions in the Barbary Wars, in refusing to pay ransom or tribute to pirates of the Barbary States, as quoted in History and Present Condition of Tripoli: With Some Accounts of the Other Barbary States http://books.google.com/books?id=YMwRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46 (1835) by Robert Greenhow, p. 46
There were a few expensively bound and weirdly neutered bookazines here, but he knew from glancing through them that these were bland advertisements for being wealthy, wealthy and deeply, witheringly unimaginative.
Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug.
Source: Blue Ant trilogy, Zero History (2010), Chapter 18, "140" (Milgrim in London)
Source: "Speech by Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych at the International conference "Ukraine and European Union: new approaches"" http://old.kmu.gov.ua/kmu/control/en/publish/article?art_id=69148733&cat_id=244315174 (28 February 2007)
“It becomes so easy to believe what one wishes to believe.”
Source: Book 2, Chapter 2 “The Castle Built of Blood” (p. 320), Corum, The King of the Swords (1971)
“I do not wish to begin by “taking sides”; nor indeed to end by “taking sides.””
Responses to Settler Regimes
Context: I am sick of “sides”; which is to say, I am sick of war; of wars hot and cold; and all their approximations and metaphors and deceits and ideological ruses. I am sick of the betrayal of the mind and the failure of compassion and the neglect of the poor. I am sick of foreign ministers and all their works and pomps. I am sick of torture and secret police and the apparatus of fascists and the rhetoric of leftists. Like Lazarus, staggering from his grave, or the ghost of Trotsky I can only groan: “We have had enough of that, we have been through all that.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 96
Source: "Naruhito: Japan’s emperor formally proclaims enthronement in centuries-old ceremony" in CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/21/asia/japan-enthronement-emperor-intl-hnk/index.html (22 October 2019)
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories (1996), Lines from "So now?" - p.402 (circa 1994. He died in March 1994, aged 73.)
Source: Olaf Scholz cited in: " Epidemiologist Karl Lauterbach to be German health minister https://www.politico.eu/article/epidemiologist-karl-lauterbach-germany-health-minister-olaf-scholz/" in Politico, 6 December 2021.
Source: Ulisses Correia e Silva (2021) cited in " Cape Verde Prime Minister presents first resident Nigerian ambassador to ECOWAS Commission https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/11/cape-verde-prime-minister-presents-first-resident-nigerian-ambassador-to-ecowas-commission/" on Vanguard, 21 November 2021.
Source: " Dolly Parton Delivers Commencement Address at the University of Tennessee 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOm2lLIOoU&t=6m35s" (at 6m35s), University of Tennessee, Knoxville on YouTube.
Stand-up, Excited for You to See and Hate This (2020)
"Ooh, Baby" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Ooh, Baby" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsVmA742FE (song on YouTube)
Song lyrics
Source: Dominicans rally against abortion https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/10559/dominicans-rally-against-abortion (3 October 2007)
Source: 'Yugoslavia and Europe' (29 October 1937), quoted in Winston Churchill, Step by Step, 1936–1939 (1939; 1947), p. 169
Source: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1874/jul/02/motion-for-a-committee-adjourned-debate#column_963 in the House of Commons against Irish Home Rule (2 July 1874)
Source: When Day is Done (1921), The Cure for Weariness, stanzas 1 and 2
“Every day, I wish I could give you the best part of me.”
Original: (it) Ogni giorno, vorrei poterti donare la parte migliore di me.
Source: prevale.net
"Pacifism and Class War" in The Essays of A. J. Muste (1967) edited by Nat Hentoff p. 179-85; also quoted in American Power and the New Mandarins (2002) by Noam Chomsky, p. 160.
Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 10 : Intentionality in Therapy, p. 265
The Panchen Lama’s warning to China (1987) (excerpts)
Celibacy is precious gift that not everyone understands, says Mexican bishop https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/259/celibacy-is-precious-gift-that-not-everyone-understands-says-mexican-bishop (25 November 2003)
"Beiwen Zhang – Adapting To Every Challenge" in Badminton Pan America http://www.badmintonpanam.org/beiwen-zhang-adapting-to-every-challenge/ (15 December 2020)
“A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone.”
Vol. I, Luke V: 27–32, p. 150
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Luke (1858–1859)
Statement (15 October 1939), quoted in Keith Feiling, Neville Chamberlain (1946; 1970), p. 419
Prime Minister
“But whatever you wish to keep, You better grab it fast.”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Bishop tells Spanish Catholics not to fear “psychological torture” (15 June 2005), Catholic News Agency https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/4164/bishop-tells-spanish-catholics-not-to-fear-psychological-torture
“Long question is a veiled statement, same as criticism is a veiled wish.”
Original: Vorrei poter essere accanto a te accarezzandoti i capelli, avvertendo il profumo della tua pelle e guardandoti negli occhi, mordere dolcemente le tue labbra.
Source: prevale.net
“I wish I could be the most beautiful smile that gives light to your face at my thought alone.”
Original: Vorrei poter essere il sorriso più bello che dona luce al tuo volto al solo mio pensiero.
Source: prevale.net
“I wish I could be your forbidden sin, your favourite.”
Original: Vorrei poter essere il tuo peccato proibito, il tuo preferito.
Source: prevale.net
Original: Vorrei poterti donare i miei occhi per mostrarti la tua superlativa bellezza, il tuo intrigante fascino, la tua inimitabile personalità, la tua simpatia ed il tuo notevole e costante coraggio.
Source: prevale.net
“I remember when I wished I could do what I can do now.”
Original: Ricordo quando avrei voluto fare quello che ora posso fare.
Source: prevale.net