Wished Quotes

663 Wished quotes by 517 unique authors

I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, but then he realized that… — Eric Carr
A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano Concerto. He would… — Unknown Author
I hope that your example attracts many souls to the adoration of Jesus Christ who is present on the altar to be of comfort and… — Pope John Paul II
We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . .… — Red Cloud
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I… — Betty Buckley
Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live… — Yukio Mishima
It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be… — Kofi Annan
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had… — Archibald MacLeish
Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It… — Diane Ackerman
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized… — D. H. Lawrence
I can't say that I ever worried much about what people thought or said of me. I like to be liked, and have often wished… — Unknown Author
I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I… — River Phoenix
As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished,… — Kathleen Turner
These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some… — Winston Churchill
I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending. — Julie Kagawa
I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was a… — Judy Blundell
I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum. — Wole Soyinka
For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that… — John Hume
Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there? — Jeremy Paxman
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to… — V.S. Naipaul
Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important… — Michel Foucault
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. — Unknown Author
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! — Mikhail Lermontov
Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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