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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace...

We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you ...

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in t...

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to b...

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establi...

They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because t...

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politic...

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degre...

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I do...

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is ...

The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American ...

I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to be o...

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and fre...

There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I...

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to li...

Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.

Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That's the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible tal...

I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the reh...

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, ...

Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the str...

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gos...

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thi...

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are al...

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active....

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, an...

I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that.

If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the u...

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know...

You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"—h...

Everyone has something they can't live without.

...wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

She was afraid of nothing and demanded everything.

This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely d...

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt b...

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happine...

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometow...

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ba...

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfi...

As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I wa...

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men...

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me I will be concerned at my own want of ability....

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's sti...

David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside ...

Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.

If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.

We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.

Extreme measures bring extreme results. If you want a normal life, do what normal people do. If you ...

If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it...

Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer termin...

Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when yo...

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we ...

It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-be...

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I ...

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majo...

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at...

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerou...

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to ...

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technolo...

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or ...

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

I want my music to do the explaining.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you ...

My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be ju...

I always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it...

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no...

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that ou...

Our politicians are stupid. And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunn...

I keep telling these millennials it's all about them to get into politics and start making things ha...

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your...

What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakab...

It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the ...

I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone sta...

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.