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"For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?" Marcus Tullius Cicero 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." Marcus Tullius Cicero 4.1429 average rating Rate this Quote
"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog." Sandra Cisneros 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'" John Cleese 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage." Confucius 4.6250 average rating Rate this Quote
"Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed." Confucius 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that." Confucius 4.7143 average rating Rate this Quote
"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage." Joseph Conrad 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them." (John) Calvin Coolidge Rate this Quote
"An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success." M. Shawn Covey 4.7143 average rating Rate this Quote
"Each of us should do something every day That we do not want to do But we know we should do, To strengthen our backbone And put iron in our soul." Henry Hitt Crane 2.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me." Mario M(atthew) Cuomo Rate this Quote
"What men desire is a virgin who is a whore." Edward Dahlberg 4.3846 average rating Rate this Quote
"Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change." Miles Dewey Davis 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself." General Charles De Gaulle 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates." Marquis de Sade 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater." Marquis de Sade 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings." Gérard Depardieu 2.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess." Rene Descartes 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall." Leonardo DiCaprio 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
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