Definition of Wished - BrainyQuote

Wished Quotations

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
Eminem

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
Andy Warhol

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift

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

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
David Ogilvy

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

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
Carroll Quigley

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