Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Nobel

It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

Alfred Nobel

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Alex Berenson

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

Aldous Huxley

At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

Aldous Huxley

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

Albert Einstein

I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful

A. A. Milne

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

A. A. Milne

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

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

Goran Ivanisevic

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

Jane Austen

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

Jane Austen

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

Jane Austen

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Jane Austen

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

Jane Austen

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

Janis Ian

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

Janis Joplin

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

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.

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.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Carnie Wilson

Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.

Alain de Botton

Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

Al Gore

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

Charles Babbage

Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule of those who have credited it; whereas the forger is one who, wishing to acquire a reputation for science, records observations which he has never made.

Charles Babbage

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam,

Barry Gibb

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

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.