Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simone Elkeles

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Simone Weil

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

Simone Weil

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Joshua Lederberg

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

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.

Henri Poincare

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.

Henri Poincare

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Heidi Julavits

I wish somebody knew whether or not I'm Jewish.

Hippolyte Taine

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.

Heinrich Heine

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Hilary Duff

Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.

Henry James

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

Henry James

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

Henry James

My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.

Helene Cixous

She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets the other language speak - the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back; it makes possible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

You can't just wish for a better life, you must go out there and create it.

Joaquin Phoenix

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

Maggie Stiefvater

This is Rilke. I wish I had written it for you.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

Gustav Stresemann

As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.

Greg Behrendt

Can you deep fry the bacon? Oh how I wish you would...

John Leo

We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.

Queen Latifah

I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

Joss Whedon

The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything.

Kim Kardashian

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!