“I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.” PeopleMindDifferentHardPlayJoySongWishMillionsWrittenKeysGlad Author:Chuck Mangione
“You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.” PeopleIfsMenWantGivingYearsChildrenHas BeensTwoHardWould BeDiesFatherWishMillionsLandBrotherThousandMy FriendsGive MeDollarsEastDrivenMy ChildrenMy BrotherNativeOld ManNative AmericanThousand YearsMillion DollarsSlaughterCattleGreat FatherWish To Die Author:Standing Bear
“If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.” IfsLongChoicesWishHalfMillionsMinutesDirectorsSeriesCommittedPrintSecondsThrillingCelluloid Author:Ben Kingsley
“I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book - one of these rare books I wish had been even longer. It's about how Darwin 's theory - supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus - led to the murder of millions of innocent people.” PeopleMenBookReadingWishWhiteInterestingMillionsTheoryMurderInnocentVery InterestingSantaBeardSanta ClausPrepsBook CoversInteresting Book Author:Ben Stein
“I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.” WayLittlesDreamHandsWould BeGirlWishBlackNaturalWhiteBoysMillionsKingsOvercomingWake UpBeing TrueBlack PeopleBlack And WhiteShockedLutherBoy And GirlHolding HandsI Have A Dream SpeechAnti RacistBoy GirlBlack Boy Author:Maya Angelou
“By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or 'bad'...By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power.” PeopleWorldWayFirstsBelieveHumansMeanWholeHandsDesireForceWishHuman BeingsMillionsParticularHabitEthicsAssumingDevotionBlockNationalismInsectsInseparableDesire For Power Author:George Orwell
“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
“I dont wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.” FeelsWishMillionsDollarsGreedyMillion Dollars Author:Keke Palmer
“I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.” PeopleWaySelfFeelingsFoundWishMillionsCostOrdinaryAddEnvironmentalRelativeRighteousOrdinary PeopleHandfulSelf RighteousStaggering Author:Thomas Sowell
“Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.” BelieveHas BeensMadeGivenNationsWishChanceMillionsModelsWinePatternsChiefsAssimilation Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been sacrificed to placate the wrath, or win the approbation of this god.” IfsMenChildrenHas BeensCountryRememberEvilWinningWishReligiousMillionsConstitutionOur CountryWrathMen WomenInquisition Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Miscellany Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Miscellany