He Wished Quotes
53 quotes by 52 authors
-
We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble and sing and…
— Geronimo
-
He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.
— George R. R. Martin
-
The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been…
— P.D. James
-
My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent…
— Edward Kennedy
-
There are books in rivulets and sermons in stones. You can gather lessons from everything. If a man does nothing whatsoever he recedes into his…
— Kirpal Singh
-
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier,…
— Mary Balogh
-
. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished…
— George Santayana
-
She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him…
— Marguerite Duras
-
To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and gave…
— John of Kronstadt
-
In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable…
— Michael Kinsley
-
The searcher's eye Not seldom finds more than he wished to find.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
-
What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to…
— Ambrose
-
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all…
— Franz Kafka
-
Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in…
— Hassan Nasrallah
-
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
-
We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick…
— Neil Gaiman
-
To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid…
— Sarah Addison Allen
-
Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he…
— Alexandre Dumas
-
He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so…
— Tim O'Brien
Who Wrote These He Wished Quotes
52 authors contributed a total of 53 He Wished Quotes, led by these top contributors: