Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's hard. There's not long to prepare, and there are things you wish you had later.

It was kind of slow, and I was frustrated. I wish I didn't get that way, but I do.

It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened.

Clark Gregg

When I was backstage at Comic-Con, about to go out and do the panel for Thor, and Joss Whedon ran up and introduced himself, I already almost passed out, right then. And then, he said, "I've been meaning to call you. You have a big part in The Avengers. Can we introduce you as part of the cast?" It was pretty Make-A-Wish Foundation. I was pretty sure I was dying and nobody had told me yet.

Colin Cunningham

Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself

Jack Levine

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

Jack Kerouac

...wishing there was a Personal God in all this impersonal matter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

George Bernard Shaw

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

George Bernard Shaw

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Franz Kafka

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Franz Kafka

I never wish to be easily defined.

Eric Williams

Some things youll never know, and some things youll wish you never knew.

I really wish it hadn't come to this. I feel we've let Neal down. I feel that very strongly.

Patti Smith

I don't know if we had some Bruins who were wishful thinking. Clearly, it was a mistake.

I don't know. I wish I could tell you because I'd like to know, too.

J. D. Salinger

God, I wish you could have been there.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

They were just jumping. I wish I could say it was me.

The plasmapheresis is something I wouldn't wish on anyone,

Jeanne Moreau

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

George W. S. Trow

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

George Washington

Peace with all the world is my sincerest wish.

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.

George Washington

As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

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!

Elvis Costello

No use wishing now for any other sin.

Jasper Johns

I never wish for critics.

Hippocrates

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

Hillary Clinton

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.