Wish Quotes - Page 172

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

Le de s ir de la prie' re est de j a' une prie' re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer.

Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.

Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.

You know, obviously I wish the violence would go down, but not as much as the Iraqi citizens would wish the violence would go down. But, incredibly enough, they showed great courage, and they want our help.

I wish they weren't called the 'Bush tax cuts.' If they're called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.

I wish I could be the guy who did the right thing at every time but unfortunately, that's not the case.

My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it.

It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.

Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.

She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.