When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.) — Crazy Horse Copy Share Image
Yinzer: DAMN!! I wish I had your balls! Tucker:"I wish you had a breath mint, but I guess we don't always get… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
Sunday is a day given over by Americans to wishing that the themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every… — Jane Pierce Copy Share Image
Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for:… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream. — Rumi Copy Share Image
You start to do shows and people come up to me and say, "I wish more people were here, how come more… — Nina Nastasia Copy Share Image
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes,… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All pain in life comes from wishing things were different than they are. Conversely, peace and happiness must come from accepting life… — Kristine Carlson Copy Share Image
I take the six weeks of the school summer holidays off because I'm pretty sure I'm not going to look back on… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
A lot of times you idolize somebody from a distance and you get to meet them and you think, 'Eyuck. I wish… — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
You should be a person who can establish the Heavenly Kingdom rather than just the one who can go there. Those who… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When all the words have been written, and all the phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of life will still remain.… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Knowing that wishes don’t always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open,… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
“I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
I'm pretty realistic. I cannot wish to be Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova because they won, like, a hundred Grand Slams. — Simona Halep Copy Share Image
The downside to making movies at a gallop like we did with 'Wish You Were Here' is that we're shooting four or… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I used to lie here like this all summer long,' I tell her. 'I'd come up here and just stare at the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
