Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bliss Carman

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Edward Hirsch

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

Emily Hughes

She called me, wished me luck. She said she was going to watch.

She doesn't wish to have anything to do with this man.

May the most you wish for be the least you get.

Edsger Dijkstra

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'

Edward Abbey

Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

Auberon Waugh

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

Aristotle

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Aristotle

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

Aristotle

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

Eddie Vedder

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

Eddie Vedder

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down....

Deepak Chopra

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Deepak Chopra

Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.

Ed Helms

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

Elizabeth Montagu

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ...

Eliza Coupe

I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

Edgar Guest

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

Brad Bird

I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.

Benjamin Franklin

Industry need not wish.

Benjamin Franklin

I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.

Benjamin Franklin

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

Arthur Golden

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

Arthur C. Clarke

Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. The only place success comes before work is a dictionary Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

Bob Dole

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

Billy Collins

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

Bode Miller

If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.

Barry Gibb

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.