#wish

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#had #i #i do #i wish #kid

As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, they're granted a wish by Jove. They confer in private before Philemon asks, "May one hour take us both away; let neither outlive the other." The wish is granted. I said, "Simultaneous deaths? Why didn't they wish for eternal happiness instead? What else would anyone wish for?" "They did wish for that," answered Jamie. ↗

— David Guterson

#love #wish #death

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#better #did #feminist #had #i

There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#coastal #communities #dependence #doubt #drilling

Slovenia wishes that Montenegro will continue successfully its way towards European integration and will reach peaceful co-habitation with other former Yugoslav peoples within a united Europe. ↗

— Janez Drnovsek

#europe #european #former #integration #other

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster. ↗

— William Throsby Bridges

#disaster #doing #first #first step #make

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#diversity #enjoy #ethnic #food #had

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#desires #different #heart #other #plans

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#consider #father #great #holdings #i

I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment. ↗

— Delta Burke

#choreography #clumsy #could #had #i