Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

Arthur Schopenhauer

...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;

Antonin Scalia

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

Edward Young

Wishing of all employments is the worst

Edward Young

What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.

Derek Jarman

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

Derek Jeter

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

Deepika Padukone

Katrina Kaif is doing very well for herself and I'd like to wish her a very Happy Birthday

Dennis Miller

The world is so ass-backwards it almost makes you wish you were dyslexic.

Alexandre Dumas

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

Augustus

I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.

Ayn Rand

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

Ayn Rand

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

Ayn Rand

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

Ayn Rand

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

Ayn Rand

You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.

C. S. Lewis

I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...

Carson Daly

You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

Obviously, I wish we could have had him. Things happen. What are you going to do?

Ozzie Guillen

I feel embarrassed, I feel guilty. I wish I had not said it the way it sounds.

Goran Ivanisevic

Of course, I really wish I was out there playing,

The plasmapheresis is something I wouldn't wish on anyone,

Billy Graham

I wish I'd watched less TV.

Green Day

Yeah f**k me! I wish all of you could fu**k me!

Ludwig von Mises

It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers.

Miranda Cosgrove

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

He's a kid, he's a talent. I wish he was on my team.

I wouldn't wish this on no one. Not what we went through there.

Trent Dilfer

I wouldn't wish that upon my worst enemy,

Aaron Rodgers

I wish we could just get it over with. It's not that big of a deal. In this offense, it's just like a number.

I wish we could have done more for these seniors. I wish we could have made a better run.

I wish we could go out there and play again, ... I wish this was a doubleheader.