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.

A. A. Milne

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

Dambisa Moyo

I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

Dave Matthews

Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.

David Levithan

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

David Levithan

i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

David Gemmell

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

Billy Graham

I wish I'd watched less TV.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons

Tim Cook

In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.

Michael Nyqvist

David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.

Ellen DeGeneres

I get to do stand-up every single day. I love that live energy exchange between the audience and myself, and to get to say the things I want to say and comment on.

Tori Amos

What I want is not to want what isn't mine

Robert Rubin

In terms of myself, I said from the very beginning that I wanted to work in the management of Citigroup and I didn't want to be a CEO, ... That's not what I want to do with myself at the moment.

Robert Reich

If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.