Famous Quotes & Sayings

All in all, it's been a lot of fun, but you wish you could've done better.

Lucan

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

Louise Brooks

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

Gloria Steinem

A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.

J. M. Coetzee

If you were blind you would hardly have fallen in love in the first place. But now, do you truly wish to see the beloved in the cold clarity of the visual apparatus? It may be in your better interest to throw a veil over the gaze, so as to keep her alive in her archetypal, goddesslike form.

J. K. Rowling

Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him. "You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

Michele Bachmann

I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I'm not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I'm not a scientist.

Randy Quaid

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

George Orwell

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

Garry Wills

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

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.

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!

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.

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.

James Buchan

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

James A. Baldwin

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

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.

Horace

Poets wish to profit or to please.

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.