Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raoul Vaneigem

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

Randy Travis

You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.

Thomas Jefferson

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

Thomas Jefferson

I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence.

Tammy Wynette

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Tanith Lee

Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

Richard Whately

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

Richard Whately

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Richelle Mead

It was like having a genie. I'd only get so many wishes.

Victoria Woodhull

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

Victor Hugo

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

Victor Hugo

Happiness wishes everybody happy.

Victor Hugo

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Veronica Roth

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.

Richard Bach

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

Robert Fulghum

We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.

Rita Mae Brown

I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.

Richard Thompson

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

Thomas Paine

Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.

Thomas Hood

Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

Timothy Leary

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

Sam Houston

I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand. I wish, if this Union must be dissolved, that its ruins may be the monument of my grave, and the graves of my family. I wish no epitaph to be written to tell that I survive the ruin of this glorious Union.

Ron Paul

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?

Stuart Rose

I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.

Stevie Smith

So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.

Stevie Smith

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

Samuel Johnson

Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Robert Jordan

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

Robert Jordan

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

Robert Southwell

Few have all they need, none all they wish.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I wish I could be elegant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I wish these flies would piss off.

Stephane Mallarme

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.