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After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
The Remains of the Day (2009) 244 -
Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.
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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.
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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
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He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
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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.
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I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
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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.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
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I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
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I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.
The Kite Runner -
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
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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.
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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.
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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, ''No wise man ever wished to be younger.''
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