quotes about wanting someone you can

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. ~Barbara Jordan



In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ~Leslie Caron



No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas. ~Robert Kirby



A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. ~John B. Priestly



They call it golf because all of the other four-letter words were taken. ~Raymond Floyd



God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If our nation took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. ~Mahatma Gandhi



While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ~Leonardo Da Vinci



We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations. ~Francis John McConnell



Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer.... Maybe self-destruction is the answer. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore



The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ~C.P. Snow



People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem. ~Chris Adams



The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. ~W.H. Auden The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future. ~Shiloh Morrison



Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? ~Murray Banks



Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~William Faulkner



You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau



One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer



Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love



No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. ~J. Robert Oppenheimer



A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ~Italo Calvino, The Literature Machine A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ~Mark Twain