Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rush Limbaugh

I deal with what "is," not with what I wish was or not with what was or used to be.

Steve Martin

I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really. But I've made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?

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.

Thomas Hardy

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

Thomas Hardy

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

Thomas B. Macaulay

I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.

Thomas Jefferson

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.

Vilfredo Pareto

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

Victoria Woodhull

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

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.

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.

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.