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I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
Now we have a problem in making our power credible,
and Vietnam is the place.
- John F. Kennedy
One of the greatest casualties
of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...
shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have often wanted to drown my troubles,
but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Anonymous
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My boyfriend and I broke up.
He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner
After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
and after half an hour
I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)
In my prayers I never said I needed a home.
I said I wanted a sanctuary.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Some people wanted champagne and caviar
when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Today is the right day to do
what you have long wanted to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I wanted to know the name of every stone
and flower and insect and bird and beast.
I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life -
but there was no one to tell me.
- George Washington Carver
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work
without having to talk
because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
- Albert Schweitzer
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
- Epictetus
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words,
and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play as often as you can.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I often regret that I have spoken;
never that I have been silent.
- Publilius Syrus
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs
when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,
because it can disappear for a long time,
and then pop back up when you least expect it.
- Lemony Snicket
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