It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When I'm about to blow the candles on my birthday cake and everybody is telling me I must make a wish, I… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We asked ourselves the question: is there anything we wished we had known before heading out into the terrifying unknown that is… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess… — James Agee Copy Share Image
At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it,… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my… — Cindy Margolis Copy Share Image
I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe… — Robin Blaser Copy Share Image
I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
“Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does… — Amanda Filipacchi Copy Share Image
Spirits...Ghosts...Angels...whichever yo wish to call them - Reader, they do exist. I've seem them all my life, but I've learned to say… — Lucinda Riley Copy Share Image
I wish I could be hard and cynical. That I could take things slowly, not give too much of myself, because I'd… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Philly was a great opportunity because I met Pat Shurmur. I was very grateful for that. Unfortunately I wish I had more… — Danny Amendola Copy Share Image
Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanna see you smile, giggle, laugh and love me. It's hard for me to bear seeing you blue, so down and… — Richie Tien Copy Share Image
I got a lion on my back because I'm a Leo, and I also just love lions. But I wish I'd researched… — Stephen Dorff Copy Share Image
Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Willow: (on her Halloween costume): I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I continue to say that I wish we had another word other than magic. It no longer means what we are doing… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
It's a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention… — Hendrik Hertzberg 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
But I have to confess, I'm glad you two had at least a few months of happiness together." I'm not glad," says… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
You might wish to revisit your understanding of the word everything.” Gregory turned to his mother. “Vocabulary and comprehension were never her… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals… — George Gilder Copy Share Image