“What you want is protection. You want to be safe. What the government does is to try to retaliate after the fact.”

“You try to give away what you want yourself.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Memory

“You want to explain everything by the facts that are known to you. But the facts that are not known to you? What do they say?”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.”

David Mermin (1935) American physicist

“Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.”

Jennifer Aniston (1969) television and film actress from the United States

“You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it; it doesn't deserve you anyways.”

Nicole Richie (1981) American television personality, musician, actress, and author

“What do you want, Acheron? (Artemis)
You know what I want. After all I’m the top of the Food Chain and you…you’re the Food. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

“You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.”

Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

“If you want to know the opinion of your neighbor, you want his honest opinion. You do not want to be deceived. You do not want to talk with a hypocrite. You want to get straight at his honest mind -- and then you are going to judge him, not by what he says but by what he does.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

“I hate time. It never does what you want it to.”

Nick Hornby book Slam