#wished

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#behind #came #changed #families #father

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#i #left #much #noticed #sort

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#day #field #forever #his #last

Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him. ↗

— Arnold Rothstein

#dead #dreamed #feeling #finally #got

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 South

#conscience #credit #devotions #dress #easter

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks. ↗

— Kurt Student

#after #apart #arrange #british #could

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

#any #could #failed #goals #had

What you experience is the accumulation of what you have thought about and wished for. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#experiences #thought #wished #experience

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. ↗

— Epicurus

#cater #crowd #i #i do #know

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#away #creep #drop #earth #liberty