Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yishan Wong

I wish I was CEO of 4chan instead

Saint Augustine

Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

Saint Augustine

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

Yul Vazquez

The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

Zhuangzi

If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for

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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

Salman Rushdie

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

Whitney Houston

I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.

Wendy Carlos

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

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!

Kim Kardashian

I wish I had a little bit more privacy.

Kelly Reilly

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

Scoot McNairy

Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

L. Ron Hubbard

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

Terry Bradshaw

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

Randall Jarrell

If wishes were stories, beggars would read...

Randall Jarrell

We can't tell our life from our wish

Li Bingbing

I wish to create trends rather than follow them.

Leslie Easterbrook

I wish I had a funny story.

Leonard Nimoy

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

Lee Kuan Yew

Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead

Lawrence Durrell

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.