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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

~ Helen Keller

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

~ Wayne Dyer

I think people used to read 'War and Peace,' and now they don't; now they sit around with their tablets and watch 'Downton Abbey' and 'Breaking Bad' or whatever, and they want the things that they watch to be better so that they can feel better about themselves for watching it.

~ Noah Hawley

To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want.

~ Emmanuel Macron

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.

~ Joyce Meyer

But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.

~ Lester B. Pearson

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

~ Agnetha Faltskog

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

~ George Weah

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

~ Margaret Mitchell

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

~ Martin Freeman

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

~ Wayne Dyer

I want to live my life, not record it.

~ Jackie Kennedy

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

~ Ben Stein

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

~ Vernon Howard

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

~ Charles De Lint

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

~ Mary J. Blige

If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.

~ Karen Mcdougal

I just want to make people smile.

~ Julie Garwood

I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

~ Vin Scully

A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know.

~ Goldie Hawn

As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.

~ James Mcavoy

I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

~ Yani Tseng

I've never liked my smile, you see. I should have had braces as a kid, but I was too proud and too vain. And I didn't want to be bullied at school.

~ Ricky Whittle

Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.

~ Yakov Smirnoff

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.

~ Odeya Rush

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I experiment with the types of films that I do. But yes, I won't deny that romantic love stories or romantic comedies are what I enjoy doing the most, because as an audience those are the kind of films that I like watching.

~ Deepika Padukone

I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.

~ Emma Watson

Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.

~ Ian Mckellen

I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.

~ James Wan

I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.

~ Sydney Pollack

I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

Whenever I'm doing anything romantic with an actor, or if there's a director around, I never want anybody's wife to feel threatened by me.

~ Julianne Moore

What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl.

~ Peter Dinklage

A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.

~ Jennifer Coolidge

I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.

~ Jessica Simpson

I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell.

~ Dennis Quaid

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.

~ Colin Trevorrow

I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.

~ Allison Williams

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

~ Mindy Kaling