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To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me.

Thomas Jefferson

If you wished to be loved, love.

Seneca

These people are very unskilled in arms ... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Christopher Columbus

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

Germaine Greer

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

William Hazlitt

After we passed around two boxes of Kleenex, starting with me, the staff here is just very happy for me. They know and feel that this is a great opportunity for me, and so because of that, they have wished me the best.

Gloria Davis

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Remember the night we broke the window in this old house? This is what I wished for.

Donna Reed

The courthouse did command everyone's time among the staff. It took a little more time than what we wished for, but you could say the project was fatally flawed from the beginning. It took some time, but the mayor was able to work on other initiatives, and I think him pulling the plug on the project will have its place in history.

Susie Wiles

I wished sometimes that I did.

Kelly Jennings

This book will really emphasize pictures. The other book was very well received, but we didn't want to do a volume two of it. It had pictures, but we wished some of them had been bigger.

Lowell Highby

(Clark) called me just before the race and wished me good luck and I really hope this makes him happy because he has supported me and he saw the belief I had in myself.

John Steffensen

James said he saw something on a cable channel about how cheap AIDS drugs are now. He thought it was too bad we couldn't get the drugs to children in Africa where it's such a problem and he wished we could do something about that.

Jim Jenkins

In his life, as in his death, my father was determined to show the world things that some were afraid to see and others wished they could ignore.

Salim Amin

If there were a track on the circuit where I wished we raced more it would be New Hampshire. The fact that I have always liked the track as a competitor does not hurt either. I always felt I had a slight home court advantage over the other drivers because I have run so many laps there, and I use that to my advantage.

Ricky Craven

He came up to me. He wished me all the good things for the Jewish new year. In fact, I was quite amazed that he did that because of all the threatening letters to me, my family and my partner.

Jonathan Samuels

We were talking about how we wished we had enjoyed the time, like when we were touring in that little van. We wished we had really taken the time to look around and be happy about where we were. I enjoyed it, but it was always hand in hand with fear and this drive to get to the next levels. I was never looking around so much.

Fabrizio Moretti

It's just something I wished wouldn't have happened.

Juanita Mendez

He said that I looked good and he wished me luck.

J.p. Losman

She was told, if she folded 1,000 paper cranes the gods would grant her wish, she wished to get well, ... She ended up folding 644 cranes before she died.

Sadako Sasaki

I wished I could have coached her for four years. She's strong and aggressive. I think with more work, she could have been a lower Division I prospect for basketball. She has the type of natural ability and aggressive attitude that translates well to both sports.

Sam Salih

I'm sure they were disappointed. As you can imagine, the players listened intently. But they all wished him the best, told him they loved him. He told them he loved them, to stay on the books and play hard and do their best.

James Dickey

I walk now and try to take care of myself, but I wished I had done some things a lot earlier. People need to take care of themselves and they need to start it at an early age.

Don Haskins

He told us that he wished that he could play again. With me being a junior, I can't just wait until next year, because what if I get hurt next year?

Brayden Billbe

I wished we had won one or two more ball games, especially in the last year.

Sam Wyche

We received a lot of feedback from gamers saying that while they liked co-op play, they wished that they were allowed more freedom to fight and explore. With the new co-op camera, they can do that.

David Perkinson

I wished him the best wishes for whatever happens. He's a really good basketball coach and he certainly has presented himself as a classy coach and a nice man. When you factor in it impacts his family, the assistants he's worked with, it's tough. But Gary is certainly going to land on his feet. He's too good of a coach not to.

Phil Martelli

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

This wasn't an easy situation to start with. Nate wished he had been a candidate for the permanent position, but he understands why he wasn't. I told him, 'Here is another opportunity for you.'

Joe Baker

They called us up and were apologetic and said they wished they could come. I told them they better bring back the gold.

Gwyn Howat

Almost every day I was in Iraq, there was a part of me that wished I wasn't there. But I was 18 at the time, and I didn't know what I was doing with my life, so entering the military seemed like a good plan.

Nick O'heran

I believe in God. I sure wished the Catholic Church did.

Gary Wolf

There was a lot of excitement at the end of last season. We wished we had made the trade in December and had the whole season to play. But everybody worked hard this summer, and wanted to come in and play well and it's shown.

Troy Murphy

I wished them good luck getting an airline reservation or a hotel room. They're going to have a hard time even getting on an elevator around here.

Bob Levy

Another person might have been unjustly prosecuted, and for other reasons which I can't explain at this time, but will become evident in the course of time, it was his firm instructions to me that he wished to get this matter over with.

David Hobson

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

Ian McKellen

He was always a joke-teller. You name a kind of joke and he told it. He had one for every occasion. Sometimes two or three for every occasion. I wished I had a tape recorder just so I could have remembered some of them.

Frank Lott

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Alexandre Dumas Père

I wished to have a TV show — a series, not a special — to change the way people behave with their dogs. I saw the need and wanted to fulfill the need. See what happens? Are you with me? The universe is always there for you.

Cesar Millan

The factions cannot be wished away. It is not enough to merely announce that they disband. This thing will continue.

Dr Zibani Maundeni

After the game against Finland I wished them luck. Hopefully they win and bring the gold to Buffalo.

Maxim Afinogenov

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Robert Southey

We wished we could have held it to town. At least that way you could say you almost made it.

Jackson Stewart

We played with the intensity I wished we had played with all year. I did not enjoy losing (Thursday), but for the first time, it meant something to everybody. That was the best we played all year and did not win.

Mick Koczersut

All through the game, we were just thinking, I can't wait for the feeling to come. Every time there was a whistle (at the end), it was tough. We just wished those 45 seconds would go by and we could get out there and celebrate.

Chantalle Rye

He wanted to let us know he was rooting for us and wished he could be here. He called us all and said, 'Come out and play hard. Play Arizona basketball.' So that's what we did. We came out with intensity, got out on the floor and just ran.

Bret Brielmaier

He mentioned that he wished he had built one bigger. We didn't want to make one too big, but big enough to accomplish what we wanted to.

Jeremy Langner

Honestly hoping that we'd make it farther than they did. And I wished that they had made it all the way home.

James Kelly

We always have a good time there and always make a point to come back. We wished we had the same kind of place when we were starting out. Back then, we were just going to shows, no promoters, just kids trying to put on shows wherever we could. That kids there in Huntington have something like HYAMP is great. It's a great thing to keep going.

Dave Peters

It was just the way Wiley would have wished, ... Coming home in an airplane.

Wiley Post

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer was as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Basically, Len and I get the satisfaction of doing it because our mother wished that. We enjoy getting people pointed in the right direction and helping them meet their goals.

Larry Ironside

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

John Guare

I never got to see that video, ... But I wished I could, people could see how kind Moe is.

James Davis

I just hate to quit. I'm still fighting, but don't expect anything long term. I dearly wished it could have turned out better.

Robert Brooks

It's always been my dream to go to college for basketball on a scholarship. I always wished my senior year I would have a good year and have someone look at me. It happened before that, and I'm really excited about it.

Brittany Rayburn

The money will provide us with the extra things we always wished we could do. You know, the things you don't want to wait until you're 80 to do.

Annette Cobb

I never wished to have to escape from my own land.

Arturo Sandoval

He's the type of guy that you wished was sitting at your Thanksgiving table every year because you know that he's going to just brighten everyone's day. He's a wonderful guy.

Dani Johnson

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Robert Burns

A lot of people have wished hard that this day would've come a long time ago. I'm always getting a flood of calls about how John Conte was not doing the right thing. This is very good news.

Wendy Murphy

The president wished them a Merry Christmas and thanked them for their service to our country. He just wanted to tell them that he was thinking of them and their families at this holiday season and that the American people were behind them and supported their efforts overseas.

Allen Abney

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

Abu Abbas

This is Connecticut basketball. After suffering the embarrassment of the North Carolina game, it came to a point where we felt like we needed to win. You get tired of leaving the gym crying because you wished you played harder. We came together and won.

Charde Houston

Austin always had that dumb old hat on. I always wished he'd get a new one, but he kept the old one. I don't know if it was a good luck charm or what.

Leah Chase

I played Carol as the mother I always wished I had, as the mother a lot of people wished they had.

Florence Henderson

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Andrew Morton

When the tragedy first happened, I wished there was a way I could go there and help.

Tristan Taylor

Once, when I got some of the songs back from him, it was around Christmas time, and it was the best Christmas present I could have wished for -- really, really exciting.

Isobel Campbell

All of us who attended the meeting -- including Microsoft -- unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors, and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished.

James Gosling

From the letters, people would certainly learn more about how a poem is made, ... They may learn more about iambic pentameter than they ever wished.

Anne Wright

When I saw that on the schedule, I wished that we were at home, ... How great would it be to have a doubleheader here at home with the atmosphere and everything that goes along with a World Cup qualifier, especially one as big as the U.S.-Mexico?

Chris Henderson

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

Bob Gibson

Whilst it may be too early for us to widen our investigation into the arena of corruption, I certainly have not ruled this out. I have indicated to you that many of the individuals that you wished to hear evidence from may be the very people that could be central to our criminal inquiry, either as witnesses or suspects.

John Yates

Truthfully, when I see what we can accomplish with money on the ground, it's the only time in my life I have wished I was Bill Gates.

Stephen Lewis

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Edith Sitwell

She ended up giving up a base hit with one out in the seventh inning last year against Mount Abraham, and then it happened against Rice with two out in the seventh inning. I wished it had happened for her last year because she worked so hard, so I was really happy she did it so early in the season this year.

Matt Lumsden

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Alexandre Dumas

I met a lady there from Buffalo, Mo., and I shared about the mission trip we took to the Ukraine last year and how I had saw a little girl there who I wished I could take home with me, ... That's when she told me she knew a lady who worked for an adoption agency and how they bring these Russian kids over to stay with host families for a couple of weeks.

Tammy White

As everybody has wished for a long time, I'd like to see higher and better uses in that part of the community. That's what we're striving for.

Mayor Mary Manross

It was great. That was one of those deals where you wished there were television cameras out there. The deal with this mini-tournament really proves how passionate and hard core we are about fishing. We were going through sticker bushes; nothing's too hard core for us when it comes to fishing.

Michael Iaconelli

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

They know if they wish me to attend for a specific discussion or purpose, I will be glad to attend - just as I would accept an invitation from hoteliers in other parts of the valley, or any other constituent group of the CVA that wished to have my ear on any relevant subject.

Steve Morris

It was a good game, but I wished we had scored a third goal.

Christian Gross

We were rooting for them, and they were rooting for us. After they won, they came by our locker room and wished us good luck, told us to represent D.C. We showed each other love all week here.

Ashanti Cook

He goes off and everyone's just laughing. He makes people feel better. It was this 90-year-old's birthday and he got her a cupcake and wished her happy birthday over the loudspeaker.

Jeff Walker

I wish I had been more perceptive to how difficult things were for her. I wish I had pursued that issue more. Everyone at church has said that. One woman who never had children said she wished she had taken her in. We all loved her so much.

Sherry Cook

The eldest was surprised when he went to comprehensive school and people said his lunch looked healthy and wished their mum could make something similar.

Simon Brown

I wished I'd never heard of FEMA. I never had this kind of problem.

Jerry Collins

He wished me the best of luck.

Al Montoya

It's hectic and a little crazy sometimes, but for me it's an opportunity of a lifetime. It's more than I could have ever wished for.

Tommy Scrivens

At the food court, she came up to me and told me how she felt that I somewhat reminded her of her fighter, Medrano. She said I was a good family man. And she really liked what she saw, me being around my family and how I was with my son. She also wished me the best in my career.

Rocky Juarez

So many people sent me e-mails telling me that I did such a good job with the Pig site and that they really wished somebody, even a rival, would put together something equally as good.

Brian Holmes

I always wished I could be part of it. It's craziness. It's March Madness!

Petra Kulhankova

Sandra was an outstanding young woman. She had 90 friends who worked at the restaurant and 30 who wished they had known her better.

James Jordan

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

Jennifer Aniston

I was calling a play but wished we had a timeout. With nine seconds left and down by three, we were taking a look at three. But they guarded pretty well.

Gene Mcateer

In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace. called a mall, we should not abridge that right.

Sol Wachtler

I'd do it again if I had to. We made it here all safely. That's the main thing. (Claudia and Joe) have been a blessing. I just wished they had lived a little bit closer.

Donald Berry

He was very cordial. I wished him a lot of luck and went back to the dugout.

Joe Nelson

It's definitely different when you move to a place where your family is a 10-hour drive from home, ... I think that's the tough part, because at Ohio State I was only an hour-and-10-minute drive from home. I just wished my parents lived closer.

Mike Nugent

When I wished her a happy birthday, she was very excited, and I know she's with it.

Harmony Doyle

It was the worst result Wales could have wished for. Sven-Goran Eriksson will have to say just one word in his pre-match talk, 'Denmark.

John Hartson

He struggled, and I think regretted his decision and wished he went to college because he really found the transition to be tough. I think it's an incredibly tough way to make a living. The transition from the juniors to the pros is a big leap. There are a lot of good players out there.

Brian Schleifer

The charges were ridiculous. The whole theory of the government's case was ridiculous, and I wished they looked at the evidence like I and the jurors did.

Jonathan Burge

I think it's very reflective of (the fact) that the American dream is still what it was 100 years ago. What people wished for and desired is not any different today. (And) no matter where you come from, these desires are shared.

Larry Hart

I just wished him the best and offered my assistance in any way I could.

Mark Bruener

For everyone who has ever wished to press an Easy Button and be instantly organized or have a gourmet dinner on the table before you get home, there is a ticket waiting to be found! And since our to-do lists keep getting longer, what busy professional wouldn't want 'The Easy Life'?

Shira Goodman

I'm just happy for them. I just told them I wished them the best of luck and hopefully they'll come home with a national championship.

Ryan Suter

I'll never forget it. We could hear those kids screaming in delight and terror from a half mile away. We must have looked like a pirate ship emerging from nowhere. That was the only time since I've been on the Nina that I wished I could have been watching it from land instead of being on deck.

Jameson Marquardt

It's been discouraging at times, to tell you the truth. To see Willie go, especially, and to see Adam go, too. I've been with Willie and Adam for a long time. I spoke with both and wished them well. But the bottom line is this: Move on. We're going to miss them, but they're not going to help us win any football games so I can't focus on who's not here.

Tedy Bruschi

I am writing in despair. I am cursing the day of my birth just like Job. I would have wished a quick end to my suffering if not for the sake of my children. My own situation is as bad as can be, according to my lawyer. ICE could hold me for years while labeling me as a threat to national security. I am not sure if I could survive it.

Gao Zhan

There was some questions where we had to choose (from a list) which we wished to be.

Ben Obomanu

As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you.

Roy Orbison

It was so angry, yet so hopeful and in love, and it wasn't even his car. It was mine, ... I started sharing it with people and wished I could share it with more people.

Davy Rothbart

The move didn't happen until Wednesday and this was only my third game in 12 months, so I didn't expect to be thrown in like that but I couldn't have wished for a better start.

Neil Mellor

It was fun having conference at home, we just wished we could have done a little better. It was a good experience for our team, though. It will only make us stronger.

Shawn Seiler

We have only ever wished the best for Jonah and for him to be able to fulfil his desire to continue playing rugby. We have not always agreed on everything but I believe we have tried to treat Jonah honestly and fairly through this period.

Chris Moller

I'm proud of where I came from. There are so many people from North Carolina who have wished me well. It means a lot that so many people who have had so much influence on my life are watching now.

Joey Cheek

This has been a difficult year for Rodrigo and we hope that a fresh start with a new club will allow him the opportunity to renew his career in Major League Soccer. I spoke to Rodrigo yesterday and he was appreciative of his treatment by the Fire and he wished he could have done more to help the team.

Peter Wilt

At that time, everyone wished the life would be like the Spring Festival everyday.

Feng Sheng

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edith Hamilton

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 it just wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be a solo tour anymore. It would look like just half of KISS.

Eric Carr

"...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt."

Elizabeth Wurtzel