Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

Matt Stone

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

Meg Cabot

Emerson:bite me Whitne:you wish

Max Weber

One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

Max Beckmann

If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.

Matthew Bourne

I wish I was more adventurous.

Pat Paulsen

In conclusion, you can see that there is a place for censors and we only wish that we could tell you where it is.

Plautus

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

Paula Deen

If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back -- if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please. I want to meet you...I is what I is, and I'm not changing.

Mary Ellen Mark

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

Keke Palmer

I dont wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kellan Lutz

You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition.

Kelley Armstrong

Wish all my corpses would do that.

Khaled Hosseini

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.

Oksana Baiul

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

Olivia Goldsmith

It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.

All in all, it's been a lot of fun, but you wish you could've done better.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

Norman Vincent Peale

By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.

Emile M. Cioran

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.