Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Dudley White

I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.

Michael Schur

I am not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram. I only use Twitter, which I wish I didn't.

Michael Musto

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

Marianne Williamson

You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.

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.

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.

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

Neale Donald Walsch

What you get to choose today is who you are and what you wish to experience in your life. Remember, not to decide is to decide.

Neale Donald Walsch

Happiness is allowing yourself to be okay with what is, rather than wishing for, and bemoaning, what is not. Obviously, what is is what is supposed to be, or it would not be. The rest is just you, arguing with life.

Marat Safin

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.

Jonathan Swift

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid…

Keke Palmer

I dont wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kellan Lutz

You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition.

Kelley Armstrong

Wish all my corpses would do that.

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.

Jo Brand

I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

Jimmy Carter

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

Mahatma Gandhi

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

James Spithill

Trust me: I dont wish I was a New Zealander.