Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

Henry David Thoreau

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.

Jamaica Kincaid

I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered.

Iyanla Vanzant

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

Everett Dirksen

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

Ernest Hemingway

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

Ernest Holmes

If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.

Erin Hunter

Understand that Bluestar does not make this offer lightly if you wish to train with us, we will have to take you into our Clan. You must either live with us and respect our ways, or return to your Twolegplace and never come back. You cannot live with a paw in each world.

Fiona Apple

We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity

Jean Kerr

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

James Buchan

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

James A. Baldwin

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

Jacqueline Carey

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

Christopher Hitchens

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Christopher Hitchens

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Gaston Bachelard

It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.

Frank O'Hara

I wish I weren’t reeling at all.

Francois Rabelais

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

Christian Louboutin

I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.'

Chris Murray

If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.

Gary Player

I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!

Gary Oldman

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

Franz Wright

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

Christine Baranski

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.

George Orwell

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

Friedrich Nietzsche

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

Jeanette Winterson

Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one

Jim Carrey

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.