Quotes About Wish

I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.' He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. 'I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here.

Nothing but this: I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had... I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is.

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

I wish it was all a dream. Then I could wake up.

He might as well wish for another thousand men, and maybe a dragon or three.

What we want is not always what we get.

Nothing but this: I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had." He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. "I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here. You leave me no choice but to appeal to the gods. I demand trial by battle.

I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to.

The septons were always going on about how the Father Above judges us all. If the Father would be so good as to topple over and crush Joff like a dung beetle, I might even believe it.

It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

Yes, it was the love of woman that was the danger, the obstacle on which her dearest wish might founder. How it grieves mothers to tell themselves that, at the very moment it has occurred to them, there already exists a woman who is making her way towards their son from the depths of eternity.

What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, and not Jack, that's all.

We can't all be like him, or his brother, or Helms, or the rest of those people.' 'No,' she said sadly. 'But I wish to God we could be something else.

Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather than that selfish, imperious, weak-willed soul to whom fate had shackled me.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

You may ask me for anything you like except time.

O, for an engine to keep back all clocks!

What you can't get is just what suits you.

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

Ye have not, because ye ask not.

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.