Quotes of: Wished Keyword

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 in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.

Michael Kinsley

Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

Jerry Saltz

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

1984

Well, I'd have more zing with George Clooney and Harrison Ford in a threesome, but neither of us are going to get that wish.

Angels Fall

She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue.

Artificial Gods

We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.

Anthem

We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?

The Isle of Blood

If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.

The Imitation of Christ

Now it's not just my lip you'll be needing to kiss if you're wishing to make amends with me, Irish.

The Immortal Highlander

She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.

Indiscretion

I closed my eyes during a flute solo, wishing I could wrap the silvery sound around me like armor.

Incarnate

She was the most beautiful creature he’d ever laid eyes upon, and for a moment, he wished he could keep her.

King's Kitten

But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.

Report to Greco

Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn't ever wish that on nobody.

The Road to Jericho

I wished, more than anything, to forget. But what I had, more than anything, was time to remember.

Remastering Jerna

An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

Repossessed

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Revolution

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Shadow & Claw

I think all wishes are the same, really," she continued. "Whether they ask for this, that, or the other, what they are really asking for is happiness.

The Sandman and the War of Dreams

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

Sisterhood Everlasting