Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherynne M. Valente

I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.

Carl Jung

In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.

Calista Flockhart

I do wish my breasts were bigger. Not big... but less small.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

Charles M. Schulz

Why is it that you don't love me?" "Sometimes I wish I knew..." "Don't anybody tell him!!

Charles Frazier

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

Charles Frazier

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.

Bob Saget

Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.

Bill Ayers

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

Bill Ayers

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

Bjarne Stroustrup

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Betty Smith

Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!

Bob Seger

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.

Charles Koch

I want my legacy to be greater freedom, greater prosperity and a better way of life for my family, our employees and all Americans. And I wish the same for every nation on earth.

Ai Weiwei

What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

Bliss Carman

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Jane Austen

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

Jane Austen

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

Jane Austen

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Jane Austen

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

Jane Austen

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

Janis Ian

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

Janis Joplin

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

Carson Daly

You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Carnie Wilson

Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.

Alain de Botton

Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

Al Gore

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

Charles Babbage

Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule of those who have credited it; whereas the forger is one who, wishing to acquire a reputation for science, records observations which he has never made.

Charles Babbage

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam,

Blaise Pascal

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

Billie Burke

Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.