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One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long –term relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom, or whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little unfulfilled. (Single people, too). Because no one gets everything they want.
Dan SavageRead
If you want to keep a friend, never test him.
John SteinbeckRead
I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
Ann RichardsRead
- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.
Robert A. HeinleinRead
I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
Ernest HemingwayRead
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
Napoleon BonaparteRead
I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep. None of it has anything to do with you. It's just that I don't know what to do now. You must be thinking what a rotten person I am. Well, believe me, I'm thinking the same thing. I don't know how this happened or why. Maybe I can get over it. Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you ... not ever.
Judy BlumeRead
Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.
Stokely CarmichaelRead
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.
Richard P. FeynmanRead
I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.
David Foster WallaceRead
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
Virginia WoolfRead
I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.
Edith WhartonRead
Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.
Fulton J. SheenRead
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
Miles DavisRead
When in a fight to the death, one wants to employ all one's weapons to the utmost. I must say that to die with one's sword still sheathed is most regrettable.
Miyamoto MusashiRead
Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.
Haruki MurakamiRead
yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music
Bob MarleyRead
Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?
George OrwellRead
Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
He wants you to smile and smell sweet and be his lady love. He wants to hear you recite all your pretty little words the way the septa taught you. He wants you to love him... and fear him.
George R. R. MartinRead
People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.
Ayn RandRead

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