Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I wish I could be elegant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I wish these flies would piss off.

Stephane Mallarme

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

V. S. Pritchett

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.

Tucker Max

Yinzer: DAMN!! I wish I had your balls! Tucker:"I wish you had a breath mint, but I guess we don't always get what we wish for.

Suzanne Collins

I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.

Suzanne Collins

I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol.

Suzanne Collins

I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best." Well, there's no good response to that. I can hardly dispute it since I was walking around with a syringe to kill Peeta when I found them. Do I really want him dead? What I want...what I want is to have him back.

Sophocles

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Steve Tanner

I often wish that folks would use Twitter for something more than sharing quotes

Stella McCartney

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

Stanley Baldwin

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

Sigmund Freud

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

Sigmund Freud

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

Steven Morrissey

It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.

Steven Pinker

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Sue Monk Kidd

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

Robert Burns

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

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.

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.

Redd Foxx

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

Susan Sontag

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

Ratan Tata

I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.

Stan Lee

We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.

Taylor Swift

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

Soren Kierkegaard

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

Stephenie Meyer

I wish there had been someone there to vote no for me -Rosalie Cullen