"It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect."
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"When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy."
"One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do."
"Our necessities never equal our wants."
"Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock."
"I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting."
"I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear"
"I've always had my guard. I have my cook and my guard. I want to eat, and I want to live."
"When someone asks you the question 'Are you ticklish' it doesn't matter if you say yes or no, cause they're going to touch you. If someone asks if you're ticklish and you don't want to be touched you should something like 'I have diarrhea, now don't touch me cause you'll make it come out... and yes I'm very ticklish'."
"A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods."
"You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go"
"Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go."
"I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way."
"I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life."
"I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!"
"Girl I know it's real cause I've been around it. You only want what's real you just never found it"
"It boils down to how much do you really believe and want it."
"I've always wanted to visit [Washington]. The Smithsonian has some fantastic archival material on blues music, which I'm really into. There's a ton of stuff I want to do there. but it just never happened."
"Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?"
"So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God’s proof to you sent already to indicate that it’s yours. You already have it. Claim it."