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My Wishes Quotes

I'll talk to my mother," she promised. "If I'm sufficiently
annoying, I'm sure I can get the engagement period
cut in half."
"It makes me wonder," he said. "As your future husband,
should I be concerned by your use of the phrase if
I'm sufficiently annoying?"
"Not if you accede to all of my wishes."
"A sentence that concerns me even more," he murmured.
She did nothing but smile.
- Julia Quinn

This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.
- David Benioff

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
- Andrew Jackson

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
- Sun Tzu

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
- Edward Gibbon

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
- C S Lewis

You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts.
- Melissa Marr

I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of my sometimes petty and superficial wishes and trust that my life is precious and meaningful in the eyes of God something really new, something beyond my own expectations begins to happen for me. (Finding My Way Home)
- Henri Nouwen

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

The universe has yet to take my wishes under consideration.
- Jessica Spotswood

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