Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Helms

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

Elizabeth Montagu

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ...

Eliza Coupe

I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

Edgar Guest

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

Brad Bird

I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.

Augustus

I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.

Ayn Rand

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

Ayn Rand

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

Ayn Rand

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

Ayn Rand

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

Ayn Rand

You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.

C. S. Lewis

I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...

Damon Lindelof

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Coco Chanel

As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.

Elizabeth Scott

I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.

Elizabeth Scott

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

Alfred Nobel

It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

Alfred Nobel

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Alex Berenson

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

Aldous Huxley

At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

Aldous Huxley

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

Albert Einstein

I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful

Adolf Hitler

We wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory.

Adolf Hitler

The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.

Green Day

Yeah f**k me! I wish all of you could fu**k me!

Alexander Siddig

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

Alexander Pushkin

I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

Adam Savage

There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.

Adam Sandler

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Alistair Cooke

The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

Andy Garcia

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.