Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de la Bruyere

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

Jean de la Bruyere

During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.

Nathan Fillion

I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.

Natalie Cole

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

Muqtada al Sadr

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

Ken Wilber

I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.

Karl A. Menninger

TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING.

Keith Urban

Youre always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully theyre all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadnt done on the first one.

Kevin Powers

Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally exhaling to ask myself, 'What will happen next?' I highly recommend it.

Ken Follett

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

Kourtney Kardashian

Sometimes I just wish nobody knew who I was.

Oliver Goldsmith

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

Oliver Goldsmith

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Many wish not so much to be virtuous, as to seem to be.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

Kiefer Sutherland

You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.

Kelly Clarkson

I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.

Honore de Balzac

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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

Carlo Goldoni

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Buzz Bissinger

I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

James Ellis

Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.

Janet Fitch

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Keyon Dooling

Sometimes you don't think, you just react. I wish I could take it back.

That's kind of the thing going into it. I'm not as comfortable with right now as I wish I would be.

Gertrude Stein

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Havelock Ellis

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Georgette Heyer

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

Georgette Heyer

As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!

Georgette Heyer

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!