
Social progress can be measured
by the social position of the female sex.
- Karl Marx
(German philosopher and political economist
whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism)
You shall not covet your neighbor's house;
you shall not covet your neighbor's wife,
nor his male servant, nor his female servant,
nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
- Exodus 20:17
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
- Anais Nin
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Marriage is a wonderful institution,
but who would want to live in an institution?
- H. L. Mencken
I feel the need to express something,
but I don't know what it is I want to express.
- the movie Interiors
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
My boyfriend and I broke up.
He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
Whenever I date a guy, I think,
"Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?"
- Rita Rudner
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up
all the things that make you want to.
- the movie Interiors
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
I want to thank my parents for everything I am today -
fat, miserable, and paranoid.
- Anonymous
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
When I want to be bold about my movement ...
I for sure do not call it exercise!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Law of Contrariness:
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you want total security, go to prison.
There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
- Dan Stanford
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Confused Memories of Childhood:
Hate to my father, cruel hate,
confused with love - a mix not great.
The man I love - the man I hate;
the man I want to emulate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.
- Leslie Gore
You know you love someone when you know
you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means
that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never say goodbye when you still want to try,
never give up when you still feel you can't take it.
Never say you don't love the person anymore
when you can't let go.
- Anonymous
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate
and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We believe whatever we want to believe.
- Demosthenes
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
If you want something to be different than it is,
you might as well teach a cat to bark.
Wanting something to be different than it is, is hopeless.
- Byron Katie
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
I've chosen my life - now I want to start living it.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
The people of the world genuinely want peace.
Some day the leaders of the world are going to
have to give in and give it to them.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
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