Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randall Jarrell

If wishes were stories, beggars would read...

Randall Jarrell

We can't tell our life from our wish

Neale Donald Walsch

What you get to choose today is who you are and what you wish to experience in your life. Remember, not to decide is to decide.

Reba McEntire

If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

River Phoenix

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.

Frank A. Clark

It's better to recall something you wish you'd said than something you wish you hadn't.

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.

Lisa Kleypas

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

Neale Donald Walsch

Happiness is allowing yourself to be okay with what is, rather than wishing for, and bemoaning, what is not. Obviously, what is is what is supposed to be, or it would not be. The rest is just you, arguing with life.

Marat Safin

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.

Jonathan Swift

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid…

Keke Palmer

I dont wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kellan Lutz

You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition.

Kelley Armstrong

Wish all my corpses would do that.

Khaled Hosseini

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

Joe Biden

I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.

Mao Zedong

To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.

Madeleine L'Engle

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

Louis Susman

You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.

Louisa May Alcott

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

Jonathan Glazer

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

Edward Burtynsky

I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

Edie Brickell

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

Holly Black

My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.

John Hodgman

First of all, I wish I could grow a beard.