Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Ellis

Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.

Janet Fitch

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Cassandra Clare

Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information," Magnus said. "I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys." he paused and winked. "I didn't actually see any, so I never got the chance.

Cassandra Clare

Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.

Cassandra Clare

Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it.

Cassandra Clare

I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.

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!

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.

Jean de la Bruyere

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

Jean de la Bruyere

During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.

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.

Jeanne Moreau

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

Honore de Balzac

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

He added, ''I wish him only the best.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

Homer

Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away.

Homer

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

Homer

It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.

Andre Agassi

If he's getting the better of me, I couldn't wish it for a better person

Eminem

I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!

Elvis Costello

No use wishing now for any other sin.

Jasper Johns

I never wish for critics.

Hippocrates

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

Hillary Clinton

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

Everett Dirksen

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

Jack Levine

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.