Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

James Appathurai

NATO has been supporting Haj pilgrimage for those Afghans who wish to go to Saudi Arabia. The Alliance has played a role in helping transport concerning their security as they leave and come back to Afghanistan.

Henry Rollins

I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.

Henry B. Eyring

Now, I wish to encourage those who are in the midst of hard trials, who feel their faith may be fading under the onslaught of troubles. There seems to me no better answer to the question of why trials come and what we are to do than the words of the Lord Himself, who passed through trials for us more terrible than we can imagine.

Pat Paulsen

In conclusion, you can see that there is a place for censors and we only wish that we could tell you where it is.

Plautus

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

Paula Deen

If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back -- if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please. I want to meet you...I is what I is, and I'm not changing.

Mary Ellen Mark

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

Lisa Kleypas

But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late.

James Howe

There's no such thing as a wasted wish.

James Schuyler

What are the questions you wish to ask?

Libba Bray

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

Friedrich August von Hayek

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.

Lucan

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Personally, I wish D. would come after me, I need a good dance partner. My Daimons have lame legs. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wish I could just fling myself into bed with you, but I can’t. I don’t want to be used that way and I don’t want to use you! Can’t you understand that?

Nikita Khrushchev

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

Nastassja Kinski

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

N. T. Wright

I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.

Miranda July

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

John Wilmot

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

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

Philip Sidney

It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.

Philip Roth

The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.

Philip Roth

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

Penn Jillette

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

Paulo Coelho

Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

Marlo Thomas

If you want to get somewhere in six months, you're not going to get there by wishing it.

Megyn Kelly

I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.

Megan McCafferty

It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be.

Megan McCafferty

I wish our love was right now.

Maya Angelou

In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.