Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ortberg

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

John Dewey

Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.

Joan of Arc

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

Garrison Keillor

A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

Francois Fenelon

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

Frank A. Clark

It's better to recall something you wish you'd said than something you wish you hadn't.

Gayle King

I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.

Geena Davis

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

Lyndon B. Johnson

Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

M. Night Shyamalan

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

Lorenz Hart

When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!

Maggie Stiefvater

This is Rilke. I wish I had written it for you.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

You can't just wish for a better life, you must go out there and create it.

Joaquin Phoenix

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

Jo Brand

I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

Jimmy Carter

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

Mahatma Gandhi

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

James Spithill

Trust me: I dont wish I was a New Zealander.

James St. James

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

James May

I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.

Emily Dickinson

A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.

Ellen Page

I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the situation around the world.

Edward Burtynsky

I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

Edie Brickell

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

Holly Black

My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.

Henri Poincare

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.

Henri Poincare

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Heidi Julavits

I wish somebody knew whether or not I'm Jewish.

Hippolyte Taine

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.