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.
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giv... GUNDO MULAUDZI Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain MARQUIS DE SADE You're getting to be a big boy; and while I'm gone, you'll be the man of the family. I want you to a... FRED GIPSON You will never truly see the best in yourself when you are only seeing the worst in every one else a... ANDONI GARCIA You will hear the birds' songs, only when you listen to it.You will learn everything, only when you ... NISHI DE SILVA You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to
be considered the onl... JERRY GARCIA You know, he doesn't have to be the only one bopped in the noggin when noggin-boppin' time rolls aro... CHRISTOPHER MOORE Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everythin... THEODORE DREISER Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you ... JOHN BERENDT There isnt such a reasonable fellow in the world, to hear him talk. He Tom Brown never wants anythin... THOMAS HUGHES No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to l... HONORé DE BALZAC you can give what you don't have; only when you be a channel. KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when... BIPASHA BASU If you think it is when you have enough that you can give to others, you will never give. No man can... ALALE ANTHONY You are only what you are when no one is looking. ROBERT C. EDWARDS The only thing that holds you back from getting what you want is paying attention to what you don’... ABRAHAM-HICKS I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, yo... DAVID LEVITHAN There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I t... DIABLO CODY Is God satisfied with you or could it be that God looks at you and fails to see a man, only a bunch ... SUNDAY ADELAJA Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one li... ST. TERESA OF AVILA And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has... SøREN KIERKEGAARD Congratulations is a societal burp that follows a positive act. When you graduate AA, you get a cong... MARA ALTMAN God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows TIMOTHY J. KELLER Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants.... KARRINE STEFFANS That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing... DREW BARRYMORE You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is ... AUBERON HERBERT When you want something to move out of your life, don't focus on it. Give attention to what you want... HINA HASHMI There’s only the one, see. When you fall in love with a girl, she’s the bloody White Album. That... ROB SHEFFIELD When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you only get one roller-coaster ride, you don't want to be thinking about the second one when... GREG POEHLER Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only... BETTE MIDLER ...have you received your identity from God? He is the only one you were created for and only He kno... RAY BEESON CHRIS HAYWARD His apparent care for his surroundings is ironic when you think he was responsible for one of the bi... BAKHTIAR AMIN That's what you get,' he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order milita... K.W. JETER I think everybody knows, at least everybody who is on the bubble, so to speak. All you can do is do ... CHARLIE ADAMS When moments are exchanged for memories, the only way we can access them is to visit the past, and w... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE One finds his inner being when in silence... in isolation, apart from the loudness of the world and ... MAICHEE SUMMER I want to be the only one to show you everything and to be the one you'll always remember for the re... PENELOPE WARD Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you... JOHN GREEN Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that se... G. K. CHESTERTON What do you care if people talk? Those who talk cannot harm you. Why should you be worried? You shou... CHRISTINE DE PIZAN There is only one security, and when you've lost that security, you've lost everything you've got. A... L. RON HUBBARD Everybody wants to hear what he has to say because he stimulates people to act to do things. That's ... LARRY CROWE I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he... MACY GRAY The only one you can call a friend is the one who corrects you when you are wrong MOHAMMED S. HASSAN Never turn to a Master for security for that is one thing he will never give you. He throws you upon... PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your produc... LAURA BELL BUNDY When you look around, what do you see?
If you have faith, every thing is a miracle and every one is ... JOHN B. BEJO in the end, everyone can understand themselves only. You are the only one to which you never have to... RENATE DORRESTEIN What I want to know is how you go on when you look around and don’t see anywhere you want to ... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Truly being able to see the needs of others around you, that is a rare gift. Only when you embrace i... WENDY MASS What is the one message that only you can give? It's your story. J.R. RIM When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its less... CICERO When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson... MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson... CICERO What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed? HORACE No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention. TIBOR FISCHER It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you... LAURA DERN I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd h... GUY RITCHIE When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other... ORSON SCOTT CARD You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. VERNON HOWARD Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you... THOMAS KEMPIS You want what you want and they want what they want, but God does what He wants. VIKRANT PARSAI in life you can only truly grasp one thing at a time its up to you what deserves your attention firs... JOHN DALE PITTMAN When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart... SRI CHINMOY When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, lea... MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Every word, every phrase, wants to be in a sentence, when it is written for you. M.F. MOONZAJER In your life, you have only one friend. who full filly yours all dream and He/She everything do for ... ARSHDEEP SINGH SAMRALA How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to ... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS When you are in entertainment business, you can’t be you until you are in off-screen. You have to ... SALMAN AZIZ When you hate people, it not only makes you hate that person, it gives that vibe off for everything ... DARLENE LOVE I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activit... UMBERTO ECO If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel g... ESTHER HICKS That man that killed another man is no criminal nor should he be consider an evil man for his action... ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA If you want to know what a man wants you to think of him, look at his tie. If you want to know what ... PADDY ASHDOWN'S MOTHER. What kind of a ballplayer do you want to have the ball in his hands in that kind of situation? We kn... BRET MEULI You see the most when you're not looking for anything in particular...when you look too hard for som... KATIE KACVINSKY Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" He was solid. When you only have three shots against you in one period, it can be hard on you mental... NICK VITUCCI the one thing about fashion is everyone wants that one moment when they look fabuloous and they feel... VERONICA WEBB Only when you give from the heart does it make the giving whole. STEPHEN RICHARDS When I got to the sidelines, Calvin said, 'Man, I've got some competition for highlights now,' ... H... DAMARIUS BILBO A man is what he has passion about,” Breeze said. “I’ve found that if you give up what ... BRANDON SANDERSON There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like... ALEISTER CROWLEY Every time you play against a guy like that, you have to be intense. I guess when you do think you'r... LITO SHEPPARD You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you. RONALD PERELMAN There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that ... DORIS LESSING Learn as you go!
Don't think you have to learn everything, in order to do anything.
The best knowled... WILLIAM MERRICK Are you able to remain humble and kind when things do not go the way you want or expect? Be kind whe... ALARIC HUTCHINSON You are the only best friend of yourself. Because you are the only one who knows about yourself as n... NISHI DE SILVA So when he desired to seize him who was an enemy to them both, he said: O Musa! do you intend to kil... QURAN People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has p... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Why be two faced when you only have one ELIJAH JONES
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MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness ... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the pri... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, a... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping a... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared ... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of lib... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the C... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon ... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I am able to say that I was very much liked at the school. I even had quite some ascendancy over my ... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Do not let us despair of the cause of liberty: it is still dear to the hearts of Frenchmen, and we s... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his ... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In ... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clerg... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on ... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider&... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE May these happy United States attain that complete splendour and prosperity which will illustrate th... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their c... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each p... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Few maxims are true in every respect VAUVENARGUES, MARQUIS DE