Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mary Martin

Wishes are thoughts vibrant with life and eager for action.

Marvin Gaye

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

Nicholas Meyer

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

Nicholas Sparks

I wish we didn't live so far apart... You're kind of addicting.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Nature has given you everything: you have got unlimited resources. The foundations of your State have been laid, and it is now for you to build, and build as quickly and as well as you can. So go ahead and I wish you God speed.

Mark Batterson

God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.

Irrfan Khan

It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

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.

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.

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.

Miyamoto Musashi

If you wish to control others you must first control yourself

Publilius Syrus

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

Publilius Syrus

Even when we get what we wish, it is not ours.

Publilius Syrus

He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.

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

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

George Herbert

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.