Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

Charles M. Schulz

Why is it that you don't love me?" "Sometimes I wish I knew..." "Don't anybody tell him!!

Charles Frazier

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

Charles Frazier

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.

Bob Saget

Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.

Bill Ayers

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

Bill Ayers

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

Edgar Guest

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

Brad Bird

I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.

Benjamin Franklin

Industry need not wish.

Benjamin Franklin

I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.

Benjamin Franklin

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

Arthur Golden

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

Arthur C. Clarke

Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. The only place success comes before work is a dictionary Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

Anthony Trollope

If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.

Demian Bichir

When I met Quentin [Tarantino], he told me what every actor wishes from any director. He said, "I've been through a Demián Bichir marathon. I've watched everything you've done." Most of the time, they don't even know what you've done.

Djuna Barnes

One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

Diane Wakoski

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Alexandre Dumas

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

Bob Dole

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

Billy Collins

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

Bode Miller

If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.

Brenda Lee

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

Brendan Behan

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Jane Goodall

If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.

Juvenal

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

Juvenal

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

Blaise Pascal

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

Billie Burke

Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.

Billie Piper

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

Dean Koontz

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner