Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epictetus

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

Emily Dickinson

A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.

Henri Poincare

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.

Henri Poincare

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Heidi Julavits

I wish somebody knew whether or not I'm Jewish.

Hippolyte Taine

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.

Heinrich Heine

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Hilary Duff

Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.

Henry James

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

Henry James

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

Henry James

My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.

Helene Cixous

She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets the other language speak - the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back; it makes possible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

You can't just wish for a better life, you must go out there and create it.

Joaquin Phoenix

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

Emma Thompson

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

John Hodgman

First of all, I wish I could grow a beard.

John Henry Newman

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

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.

Edsger Dijkstra

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'

Do you ever wish you were a superhero?

They were just jumping. I wish I could say it was me.

Gertrude Stein

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Havelock Ellis

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Georgette Heyer

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

Georgette Heyer

As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!

Georgette Heyer

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!