Yul Brynner

“Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb”. –Yul Brynner

Linus Pauling

“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away”. –Linus Pauling

Dōgen

“Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker”. –Dōgen

August Dvorak

“I’m tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race, they simply don’t want to change!” –August Dvorak

William F. Buckley

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views”. –William F. Buckley

Boris Pasternak

“They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise”. –Boris Pasternak

Lyle Alzado

“I never met a man I didn’t want to fight”. –Lyle Alzado

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man. Harry says he’s not and that he doesn’t want anything except security for his own country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace”. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

William Bligh

“There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements”. –William Bligh

Eugene Debs

“It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don’t want and get it”. –Eugene Debs

Jim Valvano

“How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? …I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it”. –Jim Valvano

John Steinbeck

“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway”. –John Steinbeck

Booker T. Washington

“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public”. –Booker T. Washington

Sid Vicious

“I’ll probably die by the time I reach 25, but I’ll have lived the way I wanted to”. –Sid Vicious

Ian Fleming

“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch”. –Ian Fleming

Peter Tosh

“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die”. –Peter Tosh

Bobby Fischer

“I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want”. –Bobby Fischer

Charles Kettering

“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it”. –Charles Kettering

G.G. Allin

“It’s not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way”. –G.G. Allin