Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.[Albert Einstein] Quote:My son first wanted to go to Stanford, which I thought was O.K. The weather is pretty good, and it's a fairly short drive to the beach. But it wouldn't be as good as let's say, Pepperdine, which is in Malibu. And he said, 'Dad, what about the education?' I said, 'Clearly, I failed as a parent.'[Larry Ellison] Quote:You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.[Zig Ziglar] Quote:I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Men always want to be a woman's first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.[Woody Allen] Quote:Look, all I'm saying is, if these big stars didn't want people going through their garbage and saying they're gay, then they shouldn't have tried to express themselves creatively.[Homer Simpson] Quote:A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.[Mark Twain] Quote:If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.[Mother Teresa] Quote:People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.[Mother Teresa] Quote:I never cared but for one thing, and that is simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day, doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.[Brigham Young] Quote:Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I like to say that I'm bisexual...when I want sex, I buy it.[Boy George] Quote:Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote: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 Eisenhower] Quote:Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.[Ian Fleming] Quote:Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it;[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.[GK Chesterton] Quote:There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.[GK Chesterton] Quote:If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.[Dave Barry] Quote:People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.[Dave Barry] Quote:Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don?t write about Man, write about 'a' man.[E.B. White] Quote:Everything you want also wants you.[Jack Canfield] Quote:If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.[Christopher Morley] Quote:If God had wanted us to spend our time fretting about the problems of home ownership, He would never have invented beer.[Dave Barry] Quote:Drug testing is very big in football. This is because football players are Role Models for young people. All you young people out there want to grow up and have enormous necks and get knee operations as often as haircuts. That's why the people in charge of football don't want you to associate it with drugs. They want you to associate it with alcohol.[Dave Barry] Quote:I realise that I'm making gender-based generalizations here, but my feeling is that if God did not want us to make gender-based generalizations, She would not have given us genders.[Dave Barry] Quote:I have not felt remotely cool for a long time, thanks largely to the relentless efforts of my teenage son, whose goal in life is to make me feel 3,500 years old. We'll be in the car, and he'll say, 'You wanna hear my new CD?' And I, flattered that he thinks his old man might like the same music he does, will say 'Sure!' So he increases the sound-system volume setting from '4' to 'Meteor Impact,' and he puts in a CD by a band with a name like 'Pustule,' and the next thing I know gigantic nuclear bass notes have blown out all the car windows and activated both the driver- and passenger-side air bags, and I'm writhing on the floor, screaming for mercy with jets of blood spurting three feet from my ears. My son then ejects the CD, smiling contentedly, knowing he as purchased a winner. On those extremely rare occasions when I like one of his CDs, I imagine he destroys it with a blowtorch.[Dave Barry] Quote:I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.[Britney Spears] Quote:You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.[Stephen King] Quote:Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.[Stephen King] Quote:People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep it in a jar on my desk.[Stephen King] Quote:I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.[Thomas Paine] Quote:The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I was gonna rip his heart out. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He's no Alexander! I'm Alexander! I'm the best ever. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's never been anyone like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah![Mike Tyson] Quote:The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.[Otto von Bismarck] Quote:You shall be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:I just want to do God's will.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:If you wanna be free, you've gotta accept everything.[Jason Mechalek] Quote:All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.[Steve Martin] Quote:Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?[Henry Mencken] Quote:Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.[Woody Allen] Quote:It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The movie's director is the pilot. It's his vision. For an actor, the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't want to fly with the director, don't get on the plane.[Denzel Washington] Quote:If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.[Bruce Lee] Quote:Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.[Edward Abbey] Quote:The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.[Henry Mencken] Quote:No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn scepticism.[George Berkeley] Quote:Of course the people dont want war...that is understood. But 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 any country.[Hermann Goering] Quote:A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.[Madonna Ciccone] Quote:My political ambitions have nothing to do with vanity or the desire for power. I want to help people. I owe them something after all they've done for me.[Arnold Schwarzenegger] Quote:I stopped getting the girl about ten years ago. Which is just as well because I'd forgotten what I wanted her for.[John Wayne] Quote:Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.[James Baldwin] Quote:Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.[Saul Bellow] Quote:The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.[Woody Allen] Quote:Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.[Daniel Webster] Quote:If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.[John Rockefeller] Quote:Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.[Phyllis Diller] Quote:If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.[Katherine Hepburn] Quote:Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.[Norman Vincent Peale] Quote:Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.[Richard Lamm] Quote:All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:I do not want the peace that passeth understanding, I want the understanding that brings peace.[Helen Keller] Quote:It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.[George MacDonald] Quote:I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when somebody comes up act like they just woke up and go, 'What was THAT?!'[Jack Handey] Quote:If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.[Andrew Carnegie] Quote:A man doesnt want a child he is a dead beat dad. A woman doesnt want a child she is pro choice.[Author Unknown] Quote:If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.[George Orwell] Quote:All I want out of life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say, 'There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.'[Ted Williams] Quote:I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.[Henny Youngman] Quote:I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.[Henny Youngman] Quote:It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job.[Erna Bombeck] Quote: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] Quote:Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. [Dwight D. Eisenhower] Quote:I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. [Henny Youngman] Quote:We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us! [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. [Terence] Quote:Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. [David Frost] Quote:They're slobbery and they're whiney and they look at you just like they could see right into your soul and they're unpredictable and the smell and they're noisy and the world revolves around them and why!? I don't get it. They're not interesting. They can't tell jokes, they don't have opinions, and they're boring, you know? They're just boring and annoying and I don't want to have one. [Barbara Hall] Quote:If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. [Carl Schurz] Quote:If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. [Dorothy Parker] Quote:The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. [Christopher Morley] Quote:Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. [Alan Corenk] Quote:I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? [Jean Kerr] Quote:Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. [Lawana Blackwell] Quote:Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today. [Henry Ford] Quote:Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. [Anatole France] Quote:Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. [Margaret Cho] Quote:I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want. [Sallust] Quote:I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. [Charles Rosin] Definitions of: wanDefinition: Won.Definition: The quality of being wan; wanness. |
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