Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Man Ray

I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph

Mallory Ortberg

You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.

John Adams

I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.

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

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.

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.

Louise Brooks

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

It's hard. There's not long to prepare, and there are things you wish you had later.

Sophocles

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Steve Tanner

I often wish that folks would use Twitter for something more than sharing quotes

Ellen Page

I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the situation around the world.

Ratan Tata

I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.

Raoul Vaneigem

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

Randy Travis

You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.

Thomas Jefferson

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

Thomas Jefferson

I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence.

Tammy Wynette

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Tanith Lee

Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

Sylvia Plath

I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.

Rollo May

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Stan Lee

We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.

Taylor Swift

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

Soren Kierkegaard

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

Stephenie Meyer

I wish there had been someone there to vote no for me -Rosalie Cullen

Sonia Sotomayor

As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.

Thomas Pynchon

He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable. He emerged from these spells with eyeballs still oscillating and a wish that his neck could rotate through the full 360 degrees.