Sentence examples for quite wish from inspiring English sources

Every year at Christmas my mum has raised a glass and recited a toast from a play she acted in as a teenager: "The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to …" Or as they say in China: "A harmonious family is the root of all good things … Gambai!

This truly world-class spectacle is remaining, if barely, uncrowded and unruined by the immense battalions who now quite understandably wish to see it.

When in the new year Captain Cook and his battered team sail for home, quite possibly wishing his historic namesake never bothered heaving to in Botany Bay, only a dozen Test matches will separate them from the opportunity to win the Ashes back.

The episodes are quite revealing; I wish there were more.

He told me, "Quite frankly, I wish she would spend more time doing her job of running the F.D.I.C.

It is quite possible to wish for a better Labour party without wishing that party to be in power.

Dr Derek Bell of the Association for Science Education says: "Most of the kids that he [Dr Stephen] would have come across are quite academic and wish to study the subject for its own sake.

"And, Sir," I might have said, "I hope I do not overreach myself, but your prose is clear and spare as anyone could wish, quite as ironical as Mark Twain....".

"Quite frankly, we wish that Mr. Gjedenson and Mr. Dodd would have been more helpful on this issue, especially given their experience on Central America in the 1980's," said Carlos M. Salinas, Amnesty International's Latin American affairs lobbyist in Washington, who has criticized the package.

I wish quite heartily I'd never made it, because I'd have had a much longer career in Hollywood.

"It's quite a wish list of things to do," Gibb says of the Villanueva review.