A Quote by Elliott Abrams

Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough, sweet, angry, thoughtful, demanding - not wistful.

Elliott Abrams

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Angry Associate Characteristic Demanding Israelis More Said Sweet Them Thoughtful Tough

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Elliott Abrams
American - Lawyer
Born: January 24, 1948

The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.

Joan Wickersham

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

William Barclay

Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.

Oscar Levant

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.

Noel Coward

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

Stevie Smith

For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!