Famous Quotes & Sayings

James St. James

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

James May

I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.

James Madison

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

Norman Vincent Peale

By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.

Emile M. Cioran

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

Eric Roth

The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

Epictetus

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

Epictetus

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

Epictetus

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

Epictetus

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

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.

Ellen Page

I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the situation around the world.

Holly Black

My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.

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.

Khaled Hosseini

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.

Oksana Baiul

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

Olivia Goldsmith

It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.