Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Eminem

I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!

Andrew Heyward

He added, ''I wish him only the best.

Francois Fenelon

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

Frank A. Clark

It's better to recall something you wish you'd said than something you wish you hadn't.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

M. Night Shyamalan

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

Lorenz Hart

When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!

Jo Brand

I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

Mitt Romney

We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.

Lucian Freud

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Chuck Palahniuk

A good story should change the way you see the world.

Christy Turlington

If you truly want to make an impact on the world, you can and you will.

Christopher Paolini

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

Anne Bronte

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

Anne Bronte

I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.

Angelina Jolie

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Angelina Jolie

I've started to really become aware of the world we live in, what's really going on.

Amos Oz

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.