When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10,… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
I don't always have the time I wish I had to understand something I don't understand. So I'm trying to do a… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Germany is a capitalist state nurtured carefully and brought back to prosperity by the United States, and it is very loyal to… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I never lacked respect to the fans and I think every player should be allowed to stay or leave a club. You… — Neymar Copy Share Image
Sometimes you meet a really nice guy, but no matter how you try, you can't seem to make yourself want him. But… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real… — Lawrence Fagg Copy Share Image
The OBE, CBE and MBE are among the ways Britain honours its citizens for their contribution to national life. I wish we… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
The Indian team does not need any best wishes - they are going to win anyway. I have been close to Sourav… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
In my lifetime, I've come to realize that you can't depend upon other people for what you want. You can't be scared… — Cee Lo Green Copy Share Image
Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader. — George Noory Copy Share Image
I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I… — John Legend Copy Share Image
If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I wish I was slimmer, but cheesecake, crumble and custard, panna cotta... I love 'em all! — Zoe Ball Copy Share Image
I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me.… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around — Drake Copy Share Image
Preconceived ideas are like searchlights which illumine the path of the experimenter and serve him as a guide to interrogate nature. They… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In terms of people who want to be writers, I wish more people knew how much work it was. — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
