Quotes of: Wished Keyword

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

Shadows on the Moon

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Science and Method

My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.

Survivor

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

Spiral Road

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

Short Shorts

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.

Saving Raphael Santiago

I know how it fees to plead. I know how it feels to wish someone would give you a chance to help them.

Stunned

Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.

Trouble On The Heath

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.

Orthodoxy

...We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle... nor its price.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Vol. 01

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

The Pleasures of Life

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Peter Pan

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

The Painted Veil

I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than “What's up?

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

The Privilege of Being a Woman

Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.

On Power

I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.

Q & A

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

Questions About Angels

Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?" "By leaping into the Void? Not really.

The Rise of the Hotel Dumort