Sentence examples for believed wished from inspiring English sources

I was writing what I felt, what I believed, wished for, raged against, hoped and dreaded.

Either King does not really have a clue what Watergate and Iran-Contra were all about or he simply thinks if he really, really believes, wishes upon a star, picks a crop of four-leaf clovers and asks Santa, he and his party will luck into a scandal big enough to topple a president they despise.

Complicating matters still more, the recordings show, is that at a point at which Mr. Blagojevich believed Mr. Obama wished to have Ms. Jarrett in the Senate, it was announced that she would instead work in the White House.

Hitler admired the architecture so much that it is believed he wished to ship the building, brick-by-brick, to Nazi Germany had German-occupied Europe encompassed the United Kingdom.

He admires those earnest elves and Santa Clauses who are genuinely rewarded by their work and, one believes, he wishes he were a bit more like them.

It was more like what anthropologists and psychologists call magical thinking the tendency to believe that wishing it so makes it so.

It was more like what anthropologists and psychologists call magical thinking — the tendency to believe that wishing it so makes it so.

We know now, from brain science, that seeing is not a direct register of what meets our eyes but a fast mental construction that squares sensations with memory and desire: what we believe and wish reality to be.

But Zhurova believes those wishing to make a stand should not target the Games.

He believes people wishing to appear authoritative must use body control to maximize their impact.

"I believe and wish the guys will give the nation great value (to the fans) for coming through the turnstiles tomorrow night".