Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edie Brickell

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

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.

Justin Trudeau

You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.

Richard Whately

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

Richard Whately

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Richelle Mead

It was like having a genie. I'd only get so many wishes.

Russell Johnson

I wish to confess my sins, and I wish Christ to come into my life. . .

Romola Garai

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

Umberto Eco

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

P. C. Cast

Kim's gripe with humans was nothing new. She, like the rest of the Guardians, put her life on the line every time she faced demons and was entitles to her own opinion. Sometimes I wish she would tall in love with a human. That would shut her up.

Patty Griffin

But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well

Patty Hearst

There's always some days you wish things had never happened, like you'd never been born, that sort of thing but I'm not the kind of person anyway that can just sit around and say, "gee, I wish that never happened." I don't ever do that. There's no point. That is a total and complete waste of time.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

Marty Feldman

I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.

Pope Francis

I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.

Peter Ackroyd

London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.

Paulo Coelho

When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

Prince Philip

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

Pope Francis

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

Nathaniel Branden

We must become what we wish to teach.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

Victor Hugo

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

Victor Hugo

Happiness wishes everybody happy.

Victor Hugo

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Veronica Roth

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.

Richard Bach

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

Robert Fulghum

We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.

Rita Mae Brown

I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.

Richard Thompson

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

Thomas Paine

Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.

Thomas Hood

Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

Timothy Leary

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.