Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

Marty Feldman

I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.

Pope Francis

I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.

Peter Ackroyd

London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.

Paulo Coelho

When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

Prince Philip

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

Pope Francis

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

Nathaniel Branden

We must become what we wish to teach.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

Molly Ringwald

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Minoru Yamasaki

I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could

Miranda Cosgrove

Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.

Pearl S. Buck

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

Terry Bradshaw

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

Randall Jarrell

If wishes were stories, beggars would read...

Randall Jarrell

We can't tell our life from our wish

Li Bingbing

I wish to create trends rather than follow them.

Leslie Easterbrook

I wish I had a funny story.

Leonard Nimoy

How many times have we come away from an argument wishing we had said and done something different?

Leonard Nimoy

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

Lee Kuan Yew

Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead

Lawrence Durrell

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

Larry David

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

Neil Peart

The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.

Marcus Aurelius

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor