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Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.
I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles.
I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.
A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater.
To play Khal Drogo was phenomenal, and I wished there was more stuff he could have done. I'm going to miss that character.
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.
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.
As young as 10 I started fancying boys. It's a common experience but I just wished I wasn't gay up until the age of 18 or 19.
We never had a trampoline, but I wished I did. We'd sneak into a friend's pool and use their trampoline to practice backflips.
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can't be ignored nor wished away.
I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.
When I was five, long before I understood what the word 'gender' meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished I were a girl.
When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.
I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.
Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That's what I wished someone would've done for me.
You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.
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.
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.
I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.
Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I could sing like Pops.
I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's basically just a guy trying to pick up a girl at a bar.
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.
AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.
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.
I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.
Prince never, ever mentioned it except to say he wished he was taller so he could play basketball. He was actually a really great basketball player.
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.
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.
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.
In a federal structure such as ours, state governments are imperative for the smooth functioning of our overall polity. They can't just be wished away.
I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false - because hope is the nub of what we are.
After watching movies like Sajeev Pazhoor's 'Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum' and G Prajith's 'Oru Vadakkan Selfie,' I had wished to be part of such films.
There are a lot of artists that I love, and I think they're really talented, and they're good dancers as well. I've always wished that I could combine that.
Lady Jaye dressed me in her clothes the first day we met. The love we had was so strong, we wished we could become one. Then we thought, 'Why shouldn't we?'
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.
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.
I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.
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.
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.
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.
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.