Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Ryan

I'm very romantic and very soppy, but sometimes I wish I wasn't!

Joseph Wood Krutch

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

Julie Garwood

Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.

Joseph Parker

Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

Joshua Lederberg

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

P. C. Cast

Kim's gripe with humans was nothing new. She, like the rest of the Guardians, put her life on the line every time she faced demons and was entitles to her own opinion. Sometimes I wish she would tall in love with a human. That would shut her up.

Patty Griffin

But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well

Patty Hearst

There's always some days you wish things had never happened, like you'd never been born, that sort of thing but I'm not the kind of person anyway that can just sit around and say, "gee, I wish that never happened." I don't ever do that. There's no point. That is a total and complete waste of time.

Kate Klise

some wishes come true. some wishes dont. sometimes you find out you were wishing for the completely wrong thing.

Elizabeth Gaskell

I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.

John Buford

It is too late, now I wish I could live.

Joe Biden

I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.

Mao Zedong

To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.

Madeleine L'Engle

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

Louis Susman

You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.

Louisa May Alcott

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

Jonathan Glazer

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

Justin Trudeau

You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.

Judith Light

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

Josh Hartnett

When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.

James Madison

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

James M. Barrie

What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.

James M. Barrie

Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.

Joe Paterno

In hindsight, I wish I had done more.

Joe Nichols

I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.

Emma Thompson

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

John Hodgman

First of all, I wish I could grow a beard.

John Galsworthy

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

John Engler

All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.