Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gillian Jacobs

We all wish there were more 'Bridesmaids' out there.

James D. Watson

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

Jamaica Kincaid

I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.

Jeanne Moreau

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

Jeremy Paxman

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

Jenna Bush

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

Fred Rogers

When we're able to resign ourselves to the wishes that will never come true, there can be enormous energies available within us for whatever we CAN do.

Frank Herbert

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

Haile Selassie

Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless

Honore de Balzac

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

He added, ''I wish him only the best.

Iris Murdoch

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

Idries Shah

The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.

J. R. R. Tolkien

And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered.

Iyanla Vanzant

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

Homer

Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away.

Homer

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

Homer

It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.

Gloria Steinem

A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.

J. M. Coetzee

If you were blind you would hardly have fallen in love in the first place. But now, do you truly wish to see the beloved in the cold clarity of the visual apparatus? It may be in your better interest to throw a veil over the gaze, so as to keep her alive in her archetypal, goddesslike form.

J. K. Rowling

Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him. "You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

Andre Agassi

If he's getting the better of me, I couldn't wish it for a better person

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.

I just wish that we had... the Augusta karma.

Man Ray

I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph

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.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

Nelson Mandela

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

Paul Dudley White

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