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Definition of Wished

Wished

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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

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift

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

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
Henri Matisse

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

If you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden

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.
Judy Garland

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

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Tom Stoppard

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.
Joseph Wood Krutch

If somebody ever wished to be me for a day, they'd be the most pissed-off person once they got here. They would be, like, in hell.
Jennifer Aniston

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Jennifer Aniston

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

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.
Manfred von Richthofen

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.
Julie Andrews

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
Ian Mckellen

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Samuel Richardson

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Edith Hamilton

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

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
Franz Schubert

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

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wished in Italian is desiderato
wished in Spanish is deseado

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