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Against my doctors' and family's wishes, I needed to go back for the funeral.
Lying is an attempt to bridge that gap, to connect our wishes and our fantasies about who we wish we were, how we wish we could be, with what we're really like.
And when they expressed wishes, all of those wishes came true, as it were.
I've also been to places in this U.S., and I know that girls in this country also have wishes, a wish for a better life somewhere in the Bronx, a wish for a better life somewhere in downtown L.A., a wish for a better life somewhere in Texas, a wish for a better life somewhere in New York, a wish for a better life somewhere in New Jersey.
[- and sometimes appears to convey its wishes and meanings by gestures.]
We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.
These seven and a half bonus minutes are kind of like genie's wishes.
You can use your first wish to wish for a million more wishes.
One sister who makes other people's wishes come true.
Anything else would run contrary to our values, it would run contrary to the wishes of the people on the ground, it would run contrary to our interests.
Is it a place where you can express your infantile wishes?
Unlike a normal frog, which lays its eggs in the water and goes away and wishes its froglets well, this frog swallowed its fertilized eggs, swallowed them into the stomach, where it should be having food, didn't digest the eggs, and turned its stomach into a uterus.
If we accept this to be true, that indeed it is 1938, Iran is Germany, Ahmadinejad is Hitler, then the question we have to ask ourself is, who wishes to play the role of Neville Chamberlain?
I knew Terence's wishes as clearly and as surely as I knew my own.
Don Draper only wishes he was as elegant and precise as the emerald cockroach wasp.
In the motor channels, we can sense how the person wishes to move.
So last night, we heard about wishes.
During my chemotherapy, I read a book by Bronnie Ware who talked about dying wishes and regrets of the people in the deathbed.
The heart cracks under sad gazes, rides on storms that spread fire, lifts chests lowered by shame, knows that it's not just reading and going on, it also wishes to see the infinite blue.
King Midas wishes that everything he touches be turned into gold.
Best wishes, Drugsheaven."
In myself, I had a ready audience, and I believed that by expressing my thoughts and wishes, others would listen, too.
Everyone wishes one day to be able to get to 100 meters.
In the UK, and I think that the figures across Europe are probably similar, only about 30 percent of people have ever talked to anyone about their wishes around death, and even for people over 75, only 45 percent of people have ever talked about this.
We dream to fulfill our wishes.
In the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud proposed that while all of our dreams, including our nightmares, are a collection of images from our daily conscious lives, they also have symbolic meanings, which relate to the fulfillment of our subconscious wishes.
It's a vast, impersonal, uncaring force of nature that is not affected by our wishes or desires.
Teens' recommendations for smooth, protected walking and skateboarding paths also support the person in a wheelchair who wishes to go smoothly down the path, or the parent pushing a new stroller.
Mostly what we want is to change reality, to fit it to our own desires, to our own wishes, and I think we should first want to understand it.
And as we tried to make the right decisions and follow my mother's wishes, we found that we were depending upon the guidance of nurses.
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