Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Keats

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

John Keats

I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

Julie Garwood

Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.

Joseph Parker

Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

Joshua Lederberg

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

Martin Luther

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Paul Oakenfold

I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.

Paul Dudley White

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

Pam Brown

Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'.

Jud Wilhite

Love the calling you have, not the one you wish you had.

R. A. Torrey

Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Appear as you may wish to be

Joey Ramone

When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.

Joe Sacco

I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.

John Green

We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

John Green

I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

Patti Smith

I wish I could just project everything on the paper,

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

Marquis de Sade

Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?

Mark Millar

She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.

Marilyn Monroe

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Nicole Krauss

When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind of unabashed directness that made me shiver. It's something amazing to feel that for the first time someone is seeing you as you really are, not as they wish you, or you wish yourself, to be.

Nicole Richie

I wish everyone could hear the soundtrack for my life that I hear in my head.

Mary Martin

Wishes are thoughts vibrant with life and eager for action.

Marvin Gaye

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

Nicholas Meyer

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

Nicholas Sparks

I wish we didn't live so far apart... You're kind of addicting.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Nature has given you everything: you have got unlimited resources. The foundations of your State have been laid, and it is now for you to build, and build as quickly and as well as you can. So go ahead and I wish you God speed.

Michael Jackson

It all went by so fast, didn't it? I wish I could do it all over again, I really do.

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.