#wished

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

— Andrew Morton

#move #private #public #whenever #wished

Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good about yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could flip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct ad had nothing at all to give. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#good #love #nothing-to-give #self-destruct #wished

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth. ↗

— Stephen Baldwin

#funny #get #go #had #honest

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#acts #between #chinese #east #gap

The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#credit #dependent #driven #fact #get

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

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

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

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't. ↗

— Brendan Coyle

#been #come #got #had #hadn