Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Iyanla Vanzant

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

Graham Greene

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Hugo Chavez

I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.

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

Federica Montseny

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

It's hard. There's not long to prepare, and there are things you wish you had later.

It was kind of slow, and I was frustrated. I wish I didn't get that way, but I do.

It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened.

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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.

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.

Pope Francis

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

Nathaniel Branden

We must become what we wish to teach.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

Justin Trudeau

You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.

Judith Light

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

Josh Hartnett

When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.

John Adams

I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.

Stuart Rose

I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.

Stevie Smith

So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.

Stevie Smith

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

Steve Earle

I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.

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.

Prince Philip

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

Terry Bradshaw

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.