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“There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.”

Wells Looks Done Moments Wish

Author:Nicholas Meyer

“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.”

“That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.”

Knows Feels Moments Desire Lost Left Wish Behinds Worst Goes On Desirable Left Behind Worst Moments

Author:T. S. Eliot

“You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish to paint; start quickly, move the brush, follow straight what you see before you, as the buzzard swoops down when the hare jumps out. If you hesitate one moment, it is gone.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Moments Moving Wish Realizing Attention Gone Paint Concentration Brushes Hares Buzzards

Author:Morris Graves

“When you struggle against this moment, you're actually struggling against the entire universe. Instead, you can make the decision that today you will not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. This means that your acceptance of this moment is total and complete. You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment. This is important to understand. You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.”

Mean Important Different Whole Moments Reality Today Universe Wish Decision Accepting Struggle Acceptance Moments In Time Accepting Reality

Author:Deepak Chopra

“But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'”

Moments Wish Ugh

Author:Sam Smith

“I'm just very body-conscious. Sometimes I'm really proud that I don't look like other pop stars. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'”

Looks Sometimes Moments Body Wish Stars Proud Conscious Pops Pop Stars Ugh

Author:Sam Smith

“There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam. The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought. Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time. Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.”

“Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer.”

Kind Moments Action Wish Hours Prayer Generous

Book:Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

“Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success.”

Firsts May Soul Moments Left Wish Behinds Vision Forever Pursuit Vanishing

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“Your hands hold roses always in a way that says They are not only yours; the beautiful changes In such kind ways, Wishing ever to sunder Things and things' selves for a second finding, to lose For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.”

Way Kind Self Moments Hands Beautiful Wish Loses Wonder Findings Rose

Book:Poems of Richard Wilbur

Source: Poems of Richard Wilbur

“The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.”

Men World Trying Whole Moments Facts Motivation Turns Wish Goal Visible

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. Since the Iraq conflict began, the Army has been pressing ahead to produce the armor necessary at a rate that they believe - it's a greatly expanded rate from what existed previously, but a rate that they believe is the rate that is all that can be accomplished at this moment.”

Knows Want Believe Has Beens War Moments Might Wish Produce Conflict Army Rate Iraq Accomplished Armor

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.”

Giving Doe Moments Light Seems Wish Forever Our Lives Misery Depth Insight Gates Flood Anguish

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.”

Knows Men Long Doe Ideas Moments Time Passion Wish Enjoy Hours Wise Fool Amusing

Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“Things get complicated at times, so there are certainly moments when you wish your life were different. That's true for everybody, not just people in our profession. But there's nothing I feel like I gave up professionally. I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.”

People Feels Different Moments Wish Enjoy Complicated Profession Gave Up

Author:Laura Linney

“The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd, The child is born by many a pang endear'd And now the mother's ear has caught his cry; O grant the cherub to her asking eye! He comes--she clasps him. To her bosom press'd He drinks the balm of life, and drops to rest.”

Children Moments Eye Mother Wish Born Hours Cry Drink Ears Asking Presses Caught Grants Bosoms Infancy Cherubs

Author:Samuel Rogers

“Where do you put your attention? On fear or love? I wish the choice were made just once and not repeated every moment of the day.”

Made Moments Choices Wish Fear Attention

Book:For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

Source: For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners