Famous Quotes & Sayings

V. S. Pritchett

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.

Tucker Max

Yinzer: DAMN!! I wish I had your balls! Tucker:"I wish you had a breath mint, but I guess we don't always get what we wish for.

Suzanne Collins

I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.

Suzanne Collins

I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol.

Suzanne Collins

I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best." Well, there's no good response to that. I can hardly dispute it since I was walking around with a syringe to kill Peeta when I found them. Do I really want him dead? What I want...what I want is to have him back.

Sophocles

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Steve Tanner

I often wish that folks would use Twitter for something more than sharing quotes

Stan Lee

We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.

Steve Martin

I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really. But I've made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?

Stella McCartney

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

Stanley Baldwin

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

Sigmund Freud

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

Sigmund Freud

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

Pope Francis

I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.

Kelly Reilly

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

Ramakrishna

Do yourself what you wish others to do.

Randall Jarrell

If wishes were stories, beggars would read...

Randall Jarrell

We can't tell our life from our wish

James May

I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.

James Madison

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

James M. Barrie

What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.

Taylor Swift

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

Soren Kierkegaard

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

Stephenie Meyer

I wish there had been someone there to vote no for me -Rosalie Cullen

Sonia Sotomayor

As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.

Thomas Pynchon

He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable. He emerged from these spells with eyeballs still oscillating and a wish that his neck could rotate through the full 360 degrees.

Thomas Hardy

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

Thomas Hardy

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

Thomas B. Macaulay

I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.

Thomas Jefferson

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.

Vilfredo Pareto

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

Russell Johnson

I wish to confess my sins, and I wish Christ to come into my life. . .