Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert McNamara

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

Saul Bellow

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

Sarah Hyland

I wish I was taller or curvier, but I'm happy with the way I look.

Sarah Dessen

Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring

Rod Serling

There are a lot I'm proud of, and a lot I wish the hell I'd never written.

Robert Smith

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

Robert M. Gates

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

Satoru Iwata

At the moment, most customers do not wish to pay the extra money for connection to the Internet, and for some customers, connection procedures to the Internet are still not easy.

Sarah Kane

Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.

Sarah Kane

I don’t have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.

Sara Shepard

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Johnson

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Samuel Johnson

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Samuel Johnson

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Samuel Johnson

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

Richard Rorty

I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.

Reba McEntire

If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

River Phoenix

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Veronica Roth

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.

Veronica Roth

What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish.

Samuel Johnson

Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Robert Jordan

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

Robert Jordan

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

Robert Southwell

Few have all they need, none all they wish.

Vincent Van Gogh

I wish they would take me as I am.

Walter Alston

More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager.

Virginia Woolf

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

Werner Heisenberg

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

Wentworth Miller

I have my own personal wish list.

Samuel Richardson

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.

Samuel Richardson

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.