A Quote by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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Beg Just Magic Magic Wand Magician Wand Wave

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Liberian - Statesman
Born: October 29, 1938

Jose Mourinho doesn't have a magic wand, and you wave the wand, and everything goes the way you want.

Petr Cech

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

Andrew Sullivan

I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.

Sandra Bernhard

I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'

George W. Bush

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

Desmond Tutu

What’s the point of being a magician if you can’t wave your wand and make the people you care about feel better?

Rick Riordan

Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.

Richard Lamm

If I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.

Kenneth C. Griffin

When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities. Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.

Pope Francis

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

Corazon Aquino

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If I could wave a magic wand, I would be a size 6 and still be able to eat cake every day.

Amanda de Cadenet

People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand.

Thomas Leonard

But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.