Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

We wish the President would remember that `` fiscal responsibility '' was the battle-cry of the party that lost the election.

I wish you was Henry.

He was in his mid-fifties at this time, long past the establishment of his name and the wish to be lionized yet once again, and it was almost a decade since he had sworn off lecturing.

But just when was an unknown, and of course the longer it did not happen, the stronger her wish and belief that it might not.

Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.

She found herself wishing an old wish, that she had told Doaty she was running away, that she had left something more behind her than the loving, sorry note and her best garnet pin.

I wish he was with me now, she thought, and that we were both the ages we are and doing what was once only pretense and acute embarrassment.

I wish I was younger and less timid.

The British also negotiated the safe return of Hasan Ali Shah to Persia, which was in accordance with his own wish.

An innovation in William's coronation ceremony was that before the actual crowning, Ealdred asked the assembled crowd, in English, if it was their wish that William be crowned king.

He was left in the hands of reactionary boyars and priests, who encouraged him to hate his father and wish for the death of the Tsar.

Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).

Her wish to be buried there was granted after she left an estate sworn at under £ 40, 000, of which Disraeli received over £ 30, 000.

I trust your trip to ' the big apple ' ( New York ) was a huge success and only wish that I had been able to make it with you.

The funeral, held two days later on 27 December, was a small and private Anglican ceremony, according to Chaplin's wish.

At the end of the 1980s the South Africans did not wish to continue to support the mercenary regime and France was in agreement.

Charlotte's first manuscript, The Professor, did not secure a publisher, although she was heartened by an encouraging response from Smith, Elder & Co of Cornhill, who expressed an interest in any longer works which " Currer Bell " might wish to send.

Chiang's body was not buried in the traditional Chinese manner but entombed in his former residence in Cihu Mausoleum | Cihu in respect for his wish to be buried in his native Fenghua.

While tormented with sorrow, sixteen-year-old Catherine was now faced with her parents ' wish that she marry Bonaventura's widower.

A vision of St. Dominic strengthened her, though, but her wish to join his Order was no comfort to Lapa, who took her daughter with her to the baths in Bagno Vignoni to improve her health.

Heaven is described primarily in physical terms as a place where every wish is immediately fulfilled when asked.

Ema are small wooden plaques that wishes or desires are written upon and left at a place in the shrine grounds so that one may get a wish or desire fulfilled.

In 1985, Rogers fulfilled a long-standing wish to direct, when she directed the musical Babes in Arms off-Broadway in Tarrytown, New York, when she was 74 years old.

In 2002, working with film director Regina Strassegger, Morath fulfilled a long-held wish to revisit the lands of her ancestors, along the borderlands of Styria and Slovenia.

Before his body could be captured by Ogle, Roberts ' wish to be buried at sea was fulfilled by his crew, who weighed his body down and threw it overboard after wrapping it in his ship's sail.

She is devastated that she could not grant Shuichiro's wish, but as Shuichiro's wish was for Kohaku to stay with him forever, it was one he could not have fulfilled himself.

His wish was fulfilled.

Indra then brought together all the waters of the holy rivers to Naimisharanya, thereby allowing the sage to have his wish fulfilled without a further loss of time.

This wish was not fulfilled, however, and Canada inherited the full British title when the country gained legislative independence from the United Kingdom in 1931.

His posthumous wish of donating his organs was fulfilled.

According to Adam, a custom exists where a man, alive, is thrown into the spring, and if he fails to return to the surface, " the wish of the people will be fulfilled.

Unfortunately, this wish was not to be fulfilled and he died just a couple of months later, on September 20, due to heart failure.

One eye is filled when making a wish, the other when the wish is fulfilled.

Davis's parents fulfilled his express wish that his organs be donated to help save the lives of others.

In 1951, John Garfield fulfilled his wish to star in a Broadway production, featuring Mildred Dunnock as Åse.

In his last years he devoted himself increasingly to religion, becoming a prelate in 1819, but his wish to become a parish priest was never fulfilled.

His wish to become a parish priest in Wiesental was never fulfilled, though he wrote an inaugural sermon for a rural parish in 1820.

One producer, worried that the live audience members would not be able to respectfully compose themselves during the final performances, deceived the audience by falsely informing them that the singers were all terminally ill young people, who were having a wish fulfilled by a charitable organization.

Therefore, parents to children, the closest of all relationships, still resulted in complaints and anger, all due to one's interest not being fulfilled as they wish so ..."

Maguire, who nominated Mayors for Peace and Nihon Hidankyo jointly for the prize, said she believes that " both organizations have fulfilled the wish of Alfred Nobel to work for peace and disarmament and awarding the prize jointly to them would recognize the great sacrifice of especially the hibakusha and give support and encouragement to all working on one of the greatest challenges to humanity – to rid the world of all nuclear weapons and build peace amongst the human family.

Ultimately, Jin manages to defeat Jinpachi, who dissolves into dust and disappears, his wish being fulfilled.

A consistent theme of Hungarian history was an ardent and sometimes violent wish to become free of Austrian rule, a wish that was finally fulfilled at the end of the First World War.