Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself

If you already have something you wished for is there a need for something else you want?

I don't know. I wish I could tell you because I'd like to know, too.

J. D. Salinger

God, I wish you could have been there.

Jack Levine

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

Jack Kerouac

...wishing there was a Personal God in all this impersonal matter.

Patti Smith

I don't know if we had some Bruins who were wishful thinking. Clearly, it was a mistake.

I really wish it hadn't come to this. I feel we've let Neal down. I feel that very strongly.

Do you ever wish you were a superhero?

Bernie Sanders

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

Vince Vaughn

We wish we could get to New Orleans, but we don't know when that will be,

Kim Basinger

I have to make a living, and I have been in a few films I wish I hadn't been in, but I don't know where things will lead me next, and that's exciting.

Karl Marx

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

Jeremy Paxman

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

Jenna Bush

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened.

It's hard. There's not long to prepare, and there are things you wish you had later.

It was kind of slow, and I was frustrated. I wish I didn't get that way, but I do.

That's kind of the thing going into it. I'm not as comfortable with right now as I wish I would be.

Georgette Heyer

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

Georgette Heyer

As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!

Georgette Heyer

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

Henry David Thoreau

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

Henry David Thoreau

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.

Jenny Slate

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

Jean Kerr

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

James Buchan

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

James A. Baldwin

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

Jacqueline Carey

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

Christopher Hitchens

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Christopher Hitchens

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Gaston Bachelard

It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.