#wished

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

#could #made #men #people #subjected

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

Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently. ↗

— Billy Graham

#disappointed #done #end #ever #every

My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#parents #peace #their #upon #wished

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity. ↗

— John Hume

#basic #british #british government #else #government

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

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#act #another #anybody #anything #could

There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way. ↗

— Timothy West

#after #before #dinner #everybody #house

Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#concerned #consume #could #guess #internet

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

#any #because #been #damn #fall