Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Wright

I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.

Steven Wright

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

Steven Wright

I wish the first word I ever said was the word quote, so right before I die I could say unquote.

Tommy Bolin

A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.

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.

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.

Rita Mae Brown

I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.

Richard Thompson

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

Thomas Paine

Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.

Thomas Hood

Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

Timothy Leary

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

Rumi

If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

Rumi

Look at me as many times as you wish, but you won’t get to know me! Since you have last seen me, I’ve changed a hundred times!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.