Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Vincent Peale

By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.

Emile M. Cioran

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

Eric Roth

The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

Epictetus

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

Epictetus

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

Epictetus

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

Epictetus

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Epictetus

Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.

It's hard. There's not long to prepare, and there are things you wish you had later.

Vince Carter

It was one of those days. Of course, you always wish you could have it back, but you can't.

It's too much to say he didn't do it, ... He did it. I wish he didn't, but he did.

Mike McCurry

They congratulated him on his re-election and wished him well." ()

It was kind of slow, and I was frustrated. I wish I didn't get that way, but I do.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

Piers Anthony

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

Nelson Mandela

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

R. A. Torrey

Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Appear as you may wish to be

Joey Ramone

When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.

Joe Sacco

I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.

John Green

We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

John Green

I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

Patti Smith

I wish I could just project everything on the paper,

Cassandra Clare

Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.

Cassandra Clare

Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it.

Cassandra Clare

I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.

Evander Holyfield

If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!

Kim Basinger

I have to make a living, and I have been in a few films I wish I hadn't been in, but I don't know where things will lead me next, and that's exciting.

Karl Marx

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

Paul Oakenfold

I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.

Paul Dudley White

I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

Pam Brown

Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'.

Jud Wilhite

Love the calling you have, not the one you wish you had.