You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

- Ashley Madekwe

To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.

- Cesare Beccaria

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

- C. S. Lewis

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.

- Bill Nelson

When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.

- Brad Goreski

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

- Benjamin Franklin

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

- Anton Seidl

Members of India's diaspora, living in distant lands of the world, my good wishes to all of you. You may be far away from India, but you are always close to our hearts.

- Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

- Andre Malraux

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

- Athanasius

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

- Abraham Lincoln

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

- Antonin Scalia

Greece wishes to be part of the eurozone, but it must, of course, go through with the necessary reforms to make this happen.

- Angela Merkel

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

- Andrew Jackson

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

- Ambrose Bierce

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

- Alfred Adler

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

- Aldous Huxley

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

- Al Yankovic

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

- Aesop