Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Roth

The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

Epictetus

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

Epictetus

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

Epictetus

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

Epictetus

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Epictetus

Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.

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.

Tony Robbins

Be the person you wish to become - today. Talk like them, walk like them, breathe like them! Be them NOW!

Sinead O'Connor

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

Simone Elkeles

I wish I could help you" I whisper. You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me.

Simone Elkeles

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Simone Weil

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

Simone Weil

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Robert Anthony

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

Robert Altman

I've never had a big hit movie. "MASH" was probably the biggest. I don't make those kind of films, and I never have. I wish each one of them would just do billions of dollars worth of ticket sales, but they never do and they never will.

Ringo Starr

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

Tim Meadows

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

Thomas Troward

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

Scoot McNairy

Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

L. Ron Hubbard

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

Terry Bradshaw

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

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.