Famous Quotes & Sayings

I wish I had $20 million; I'd be there right now,

Bob Woodward

I wish I did have a bombshell. I don't even have a firecracker. I'm sorry.

Derek Lowe

I wish I could use that as an excuse, but I can't.

I wish I could tell you. On Monday, all will be revealed.

I wish I could tell you how I really felt.

I wish I could take some of them back and get the win,

Matthew Broderick

I wish we were out of town, so we could work on these things quietly,

I wish I was there. I want to be there.

Martha Stewart

I wish it were removable but it is not,

We jumped on them early. I just wish we could have scored some more runs.

George Herbert

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Jean de la Bruyere

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

Jean de la Bruyere

During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.

Carlo Goldoni

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Buzz Bissinger

I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

James Ellis

Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.

Janet Fitch

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Cassandra Clare

Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information," Magnus said. "I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys." he paused and winked. "I didn't actually see any, so I never got the chance.

Frank O'Hara

I wish I weren’t reeling at all.

Francois Rabelais

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

Christian Louboutin

I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.'

Chris Murray

If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.

Gertrude Stein

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Havelock Ellis

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Georgette Heyer

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

Georgette Heyer

As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!

Georgette Heyer

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

Henry David Thoreau

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

Henry David Thoreau

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.

Graham Greene

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Hugo Chavez

I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.

Horace

Poets wish to profit or to please.