Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Batterson

God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.

Nicholas Breton

I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.

Ned Vizzini

Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.

Miyamoto Musashi

If you wish to control others you must first control yourself

Publilius Syrus

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

Publilius Syrus

Even when we get what we wish, it is not ours.

Publilius Syrus

He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

Piers Anthony

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

Nelson Mandela

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

Kourtney Kardashian

Sometimes I just wish nobody knew who I was.

Oliver Goldsmith

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

Oliver Goldsmith

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Many wish not so much to be virtuous, as to seem to be.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

Kiefer Sutherland

You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.

Kelly Clarkson

I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.

Mark Twain

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves ...

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

Leon Trotsky

The Left Opposition declared that the new tempo of industrialization were above our forces, and that the liquidation of the kulaks as a class in the course of three years was a fantastic task, if one wishes to say so, we find ourselves this time "less radical" than the Stalinists.

Larry Wall

Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.

Lafcadio Hearn

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.

Irrfan Khan

It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

Iris Murdoch

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

Idries Shah

The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.

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.

Nathan Fillion

I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.