Famous Quotes & Sayings

Romola Garai

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

Umberto Eco

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

Veronica Roth

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.

Veronica Roth

What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish.

Maggie Stiefvater

This is Rilke. I wish I had written it for you.

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.

Saint Augustine

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

Saint Augustine

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not ....

Saint Augustine

Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

Saint Augustine

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

Yul Vazquez

The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

Zhuangzi

If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for

Sara Shepard

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Johnson

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Samuel Johnson

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Samuel Johnson

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Samuel Johnson

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

Vincent Van Gogh

I wish they would take me as I am.

Walter Alston

More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager.

Virginia Woolf

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

Werner Heisenberg

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

Wentworth Miller

I have my own personal wish list.

Samuel Richardson

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.

Samuel Richardson

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

William Goldman

[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so.

Warren Zevon

I wish I sang better.

Voltaire

We cannot wish for that we know not.

More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.

William Jones

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

Yishan Wong

I wish I was CEO of 4chan instead

Woody Allen

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.