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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey

Someone, Down, Lots

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

Friends, Thoughts, Find

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne

Live, Hundred, Minus

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Power, Character

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach

Love, Someone, Friends

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson

Action, Act, Ask

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs

Life, Change, Morning

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost

Love, Success, Aim

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
Amanda Peet

Beauty, Beautiful, Fun

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

Happy, Others, Compassion

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar

Life, Help, Enough

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama

Yourself, Everything, Desire

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Wrong, Means, Progress

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Friend, Book

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein

Thoughts, Rest, Gods

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner

Life, Love, Great

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
Eminem

Love, Hate, Between

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa

Love, Keep, Heard

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Sigmund Freud

Great, Woman, Soul

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Muhammad Ali

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom, Human, Person

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn Monroe

Human, Feelings, Talent

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson

Time, Person, May

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
Clint Eastwood

Control, Around, Gun

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan

Happen, Wish, Others

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

Life, Courage, Sadness

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Women, Men

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus Garvey

Nature, Great, God

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