“A homeless guy came up to me on the street, said he hadn't eaten in four days. I told him, "Man, I wish I had your willpower.” MenSaidGuyWishFourStreetsHomelessWillpower Book:It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
“With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans wish to project their historical guilt on to someone else.” WishHistoryMillionsRecordsFourHumourProjectsSlaveryGuiltHistoricalKillingBritishDecadesAmerican Indian Author:Andrew Roberts
“Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.” LongTwoEnoughAgeSuccessTimeThreeHopeWishChangeRealizingCourageFourSucceed Author:Earl Nightingale
“Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in numbers except our own wish. Since I first started making television programs, the population of the world has increased three times. That's an extraordinary notion. Can it increase four times? Can it increase five times? The Earth is a finite size. So a point will eventually come when we run out of food, when we run out of space and when we will have destroyed most of the natural world. So ought we to do something about it before that happens?” WorldFirstsHumansHappensRunningEarthThreeWishNaturalHuman BeingsSpaceNumbersFiveFourTelevisionOughtProgramIncreaseExtraordinaryNotionSizePopulationCleverFactorsDestroyedFiniteThree TimesNatural World Author:David Attenborough
“Not too many people work in a job where, waiting out there are three or four hundred people who are paid to tear apart what you've done. And often they are brighter than you are, or they know more about the subject than you do, or they wish they had written a book themselves, or done a lot better. Or they just don't like it! And you have to live with it.” PeopleKnowsBookDoneJobsThreeWishWaitingFourWrittenSubjectsTearsHundredPaidBrighter Author:James A. Michener
“Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument, I find the pompous idiocy of those four presidents somehow more risible still. Wishing to show respect or feel a vicarious thrill of admiration and pride, I can only giggle. For which I am very sorry. Any loyal American reading this who feels outraged and insulted is free to explode with derisive snorts of laughter at any British equivalent.” FeelsMindStillsI CanShowsReadingWishPresidentFourCrazyPrideLaughterHorseSorryBritishAdmirationLoyalThrillMonumentInsultedGiggleOutragedPompousIdiocyChapelVicariousShow RespectSistine ChapelParthenonMount RushmoreCrazy Horse Author:Stephen Fry
“Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.” WayHas BeensHomeWishFourSpeechPreparedNewspapersVersionsSpeakersWay Home Author:Dale Carnegie