(2873 quotes found)
“[the whale groans] Dory: Okay, he either said, "move to the back of the throat," or he "wants a root beer float".”
Finding Nemo
“The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.”
William S. Burroughs
“He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all”
William Shakespeare
“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
Ayn Rand
“A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.”
David Letterman
“The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.”
Jonathan Swift
“Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.”
William Moulton Marston
“In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.”
Eldridge Cleaver
“If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”
Chief Joseph
“The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him”
Cyril Connolly
