Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aerin Lauder

When you ask women what's the one thing they wish they had more of, they always say time.

Aesop

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

A. A. Milne

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

A. A. Milne

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

Ada Leverson

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

Ludwig von Mises

It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. I've always wished that for myself.

My only wish is that my wishes be at rest.

It is him, 100 percent. I wish it was not him.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

Alice Hoffman

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

Alice Hoffman

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

Alice Duer Miller

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

Alan Zweibel

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.

Amanda Hocking

Yeah, you're probably right," I admitted and slowly pulled myself out from underneath the covers. "You know, I really wish you'd catch onto the fact that I'm always right.

Annie Lennox

When I was younger I wish I'd known that what often seemed to be the 'end of the world' often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!

Clay Shirky

To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.

D. J. MacHale

Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)

D. H. Lawrence

When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.

Emma Goldman

The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.

E. M. Forster

There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.

Drew Carey

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

Dudley Moore

I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.

Douglas William Jerrold

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

Dalai Lama

You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

Dodie Smith

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

Desmond Tutu

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Alphonsus Liguori

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

Andy Rooney

I just wish insignificance had more stature.

Andy Rooney

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.

Andy Stanley

Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.

Andy Warhol

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

Andy Warhol

I wish I hadn't made so many images.