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“I always make it a rule to let the other fellow fire first. If a man wants to fight, I argue the question with him and try to show him how foolish it would be. If he can't be dissuaded, why then the fun begins but I always let him have first crack. Then when I fire, you see, I have the verdict of self-defence on my side. I know that he is pretty certain in his hurry, to miss. I never do.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Trying Firsts Self Shows Would Be Certain Fighting Fun Sides Fire Missing Fellows Arguing Foolish Cracks Defence Verdict Self Defence

Author:Ben Thompson

“A lot of men are very possessive and they want to control you. But as you grow older, you attract people who are on your wavelength and who understand who you are.”

People Men Want Grows Who You Are Possessive Wavelength

Author:Marisa Berenson

“Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.”

Men Want Scene Mouths Bounds Humiliated Battered

Book:Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

“The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.”

Men Want Looks Pleasure Horror Instinct Ugly Shrinks Fascination Devilish

Author:Sonya Levien

“Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.”

Thinking Men Want Trying Jobs Turns Powerful Successful Danger Currents Formal New Job Formal Wear

Author:Peter York

“I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.”

Thinking Men Want Violent Optimistic Being Optimistic

Author:Bruce Kent

“I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!”

Men Want Believe I Can Careers Forever Wonderful Married Blessed Genes Wonderful Man Deeply In Love

Author:Jeanette MacDonald

“Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.”

Men Want Children Talking Youth Our Children Your Children Smartness

Author:E. W. Howe

“We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things.”

Men Want Important Seems Remember Individual Mass Productions Mass Production

Author:Ralph Washington Sockman

“I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.”

“You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.”

“A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.”

Men Want Doe War Court Satisfaction Inner Peace Genuine Boredom Frustration Relieved Meaninglessness Satisfaction In Life

Author:Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

“Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.”

Men Want Contentment

Book:What is man

Source: What is man

“That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler