Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

Henry David Thoreau

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.

Ernest Hemingway

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

Ernest Holmes

If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.

Erin Hunter

Understand that Bluestar does not make this offer lightly if you wish to train with us, we will have to take you into our Clan. You must either live with us and respect our ways, or return to your Twolegplace and never come back. You cannot live with a paw in each world.

Fiona Apple

We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity

Cassandra Clare

Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.

Cassandra Clare

And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we have eaten.

Cassandra Clare

Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

Cassandra Clare

You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.

George Eliot

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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.

Jeff Bridges

I wish I were more disciplined.

Jenny Slate

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

Jean Kerr

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

Jacqueline Carey

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

Christopher Hitchens

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Christopher Hitchens

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Gaston Bachelard

It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.

Frank O'Hara

I wish I weren’t reeling at all.

Francois Rabelais

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

Christian Louboutin

I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.'

Chris Murray

If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.

George W. S. Trow

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

George Washington

Peace with all the world is my sincerest wish.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

George Washington

As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.