Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Owen

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

Nina Hagen

I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.

Mitch Albom

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Mitch Albom

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

Mike Tyson

I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.

Miguel de Cervantes

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

John Henry Newman

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

John Galsworthy

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

John Engler

All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.

John Ortberg

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

John Dewey

Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.

Joan of Arc

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

Garrison Keillor

A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

Francois Fenelon

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

Frank A. Clark

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

Gayle King

I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.

Geena Davis

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

John Buford

It is too late, now I wish I could live.

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.

Lisa Kleypas

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

Lindsey Vonn

I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.

Linda McCartney

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

Leo Tolstoy

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

Leo Tolstoy

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

Leo Buscaglia

If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.

Lee Ryan

I'm very romantic and very soppy, but sometimes I wish I wasn't!

Joseph Wood Krutch

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.