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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

Father, Nothing, Thinking

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

War, Thought, Goals

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.
Brett Favre

Past, Super, Bowl

More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
Harlan Coben

Life, Real, Once

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
Marcia Wallace

Change, Faith, God

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.
Dick Wolf

Work, Working, Community

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
Jane Smiley

Love, Marriage, Once

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.
Anthony Edwards

God, Hope, Real

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.
Little Richard

Music, Means, Themselves

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.
Ayelet Waldman

Life, Nature, Job

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
Edward R. Murrow

Art, Lost, Often

To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.
Ariel Sharon

Peace, Future, Before

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

Tell, Crying, Oh

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Change, Politics, Long

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

Between, Able, Top

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

Success, Truth, Same

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
Titus Livius

Freedom, Old, King

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

Country, Another, Speak

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
Olivia Thirlby

Life, Social, Exciting

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

Government, Happen, Else

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.
Joseph Beuys

Life, Positive, Future

I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.
Janet Reno

Time, Country, Air

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

Love, Women, Men

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

Alone, Left, Noticed

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.
Luke Ford

School, College, Times

I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.
Zebulon Pike

Return, Dreaming, Informed

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

Religion, God, Men

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.
Berkeley Breathed

Different, Place, Far

So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive.
William Joyce

Life, Car, Real

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, Truth, Sometimes

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