My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.
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.
Theories were a dime a dozen. The partition that separated science and wishful thinking was evidence: observations and firm facts.
There are people in this country who are the great destroyers; they wish to destroy the kind of free society we have. They wouldn't have the freedom and the kind of society they wish to impose on us. Many of those people are in the unions. Many many people in the unions do not wish to strike, and I think many of those who struck in hospitals and in the ambulance service didn't wish to. I'm not suggesting that every strike is dominated by those, but a number are.
It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.
Historical responsibility is a fact. It cannot be wished away. We are just 2.4 percent of the world's historical emissions.
Well, a wish, some wish, Ruth said. Well, I wished that this world wouldn’t end. This world, this world, Ruth said softly.
Let’s be sensible and wish for both of us there, while we’re wishing. I mean, it’s not like wishes are rationed.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
I wish I was fiction, I wish I was fact.