"You think about things for about six months, and you look back wistfully," he said.
"I was into my twenties when my mother astonished me by saying wistfully, 'I'd give anything to be 45 again.' Forty-five sounded like old age to me then.
Hafid is deeply passionate about food, and as he spoke wistfully of the dishes he has created, using a combination of Moroccan and Mediterranean food, I was seconds away from offering to sell up and move to Marrakech to go into the restaurant business together.
Wistfully, we left this pinnacle to scramble down to Ore Gap and make our final ascent to Esk Pike.
The friction between the two is natural, as is the urge to sigh wistfully for a perfect past.
Second, after a frantic scramble for presidential candidates to register by October 6th, they know that in a year's time they may be looking wistfully back on the Karzai era.
Mr Milburn talks wistfully of giving every patient the right to choose their hospital, where currently they exercise little or none.But giving patients real choice, and hospitals the ability to respond to it, would involve far more radical change than the government seems willing to embrace.
When pondering how to improve local government they look wistfully at the great Victorian town halls.
As Mr Yusuf wistfully remarks, the slender first report won a worldwide readership but few people now read past the lengthy executive summaries.Despite the bank's best efforts, economic growth remains a mystery: no one really knows why some countries sustain it over decades and others do not.
It does represent a genuine cross-section of corporate America.Nevertheless, one does look rather wistfully back to the Dow components of 1928 (when the average was expanded from 20 to 30 stocks).
Grandees wistfully cite the 1967 advice of William F. Buckley, a swashbuckling conservative, that wise primary voters back the most right-wing "viable" candidate.Outside groups such as the Club for Growth and FreedomWorks, as well as tea-party outfits, have rebuttals ready.
