Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heinrich Heine

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Hilary Duff

Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.

Henry James

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

Henry James

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

Henry James

My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.

Helene Cixous

She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets the other language speak - the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back; it makes possible.

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.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

Gustav Stresemann

As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.

Greg Behrendt

Can you deep fry the bacon? Oh how I wish you would...

John Leo

We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.

Jim Rohn

What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is changing!

Jim Rohn

The big question is, are we letting ourselves become what we wish to become?

George Mason

I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

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

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

David Guetta

Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again

Madeleine Albright

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

Alan Ladd

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

Cheri Huber

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

Bob Saget

Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.

Catherynne M. Valente

I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.

Dennis Miller

The world is so ass-backwards it almost makes you wish you were dyslexic.

Edgar Guest

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

Ai Weiwei

What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

Alexander Siddig

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

Alexander Pushkin

I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

Green Day

Yeah f**k me! I wish all of you could fu**k me!

A. A. Milne

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

A. A. Milne

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

Ada Leverson

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

Ludwig von Mises

It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers.