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When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.: Caspian Tredwell-Owen, and Alex Kurtzman, The Island, 2005
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Gregory: "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." Gregory: "The dog did nothing in the night-time." Holmes: "That was the curious incident.": Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), Silver Blaze
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!: Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Dr. Zhivago
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.: Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, 2011
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Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LVI
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A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 08-02-11
Thy wish was father... to that thought.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part II, Act IV, 5
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If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry V, Act III, sc. 2
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Wishers were ever fools.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, sc. 15
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