But another person could never fulfil what I long for.
There comes a day in a man's life, a sad day, when he realises he will never fulfil his childhood ambition of becoming an astronaut.
The show is less compelling when Williams plays the depression straight – when he tells us his life has peaked already, say, and here's a list of dreams he'll now never fulfil.
Marshall believes this anxiety is sparked by a sudden awareness of mortality and a fear of failure; the nagging, nightmarish sense that we will never fulfil our true potential.
The battleground is culture and their eldest child, Clive (Tom Morley), a Cambridge student who can never fulfil his father's expectations for him to be a golf-playing hearty.
Apart from the obvious difference in quality between a wish or intention and an actual attempt, the reason might be that most of us form intentions that we abandon and wishes we never fulfil.
"Britain needs a thriving London and south-east but our country will never fulfil its potential unless we balance the important contribution of our financial services with other key sectors of the economy and ensure all of our regions are firing on all cylinders.
Thirty-year-old Matthew Carpenter had a dream, a dream which he may never fulfil.
The history of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations speaks for itself, and it will never fulfil the minimum requirements of the Palestinian people - our basic right to self-determination.
The next was Nicholas Bacon in 1550, then Edward Stanhope in 1580, who was afforded the privilege because, although a skilled attorney, an illness meant he could never fulfil the duties of a Reader.
