Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neale Donald Walsch

Happiness is allowing yourself to be okay with what is, rather than wishing for, and bemoaning, what is not. Obviously, what is is what is supposed to be, or it would not be. The rest is just you, arguing with life.

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.

Peter Ackroyd

London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.

Paulo Coelho

When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

Prince Philip

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

Pope Francis

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

Nathaniel Branden

We must become what we wish to teach.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

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.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

Marty Feldman

I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.

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 Henry Newman

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

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.

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.