Stanley Baldwin Quotes

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • People
  • Wish
  • Red

• I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Good
  • Wish
  • Service

• I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Man
  • Night
  • Wish

• My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Responsibility

• I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Men
  • Women
  • Day

• I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

  

  Man Ray
  • Wish
  • Existence
  • Paint

• I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Wish
  • Adversity
  • I Wish

• I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • World
  • Day
  • Wish

• I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Wish
  • Taller

• I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Reading
  • Wish

• I want to see the king.Wonderful. I'm glad for you.Why are you so glad?Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• In fact, Mr. Watson, it's a queer world, and the longer I live in it the queerer I find it. Once I thought it would be a good idea to regulate things myself and run the world as it ought to be run; but I gave it up long ago. The world's a stage, they say; but the show ain't always amusing, by a long chalk, and sometimes I wish I didn't have a reserved seat.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I see you around sometimes and my heart just melts. You're looking like if you had your wish, you'd be somewhere else. And it just breaks my heart to see you here this way. Someday I'll get the nerve to walk up to you and say This is the last worthless evening that you'll have to spend. Just gimme a chance to show you how to love again.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Wish

• I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Wish
  • Style

• I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Wish

• I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • America
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Painting
  • Shape
  • Absurd

• My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.

  

  Kathleen Blanco
  • Hand

• Here lies my wife:here let her lie!Now she's at rest, and so am I.

  

  John Dryden
  • She
  • Wife
  • Rest

• I believe that we can 'sense' the future. We just haven't yet established the mechanism allowing it to happen.

  

  Brian Josephson
  • Believe
  • Future

• I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Wish
  • Ill
  • Stanley