Quotes about want page 27
“People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.”
Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care
Source: Handle with Care
Jane Austen book Persuasion
Variant: But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
Source: Persuasion
Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Variant: The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Charmed Thirds
Mark Batterson (1969) American pastor and writer
Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
“Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.”
Connie Willis book To Say Nothing of the Dog
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.”
Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Source: Gone with the Wind
“You don't destroy what you want to
acquire in the future.”
Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay
Source: Mockingjay
Howard Gardner (1943) American developmental psychologist
Howard Gardner (1983), "Multiple approaches to understanding," in: Charles M. Reigeluth (ed.) Instructional-design Theories and Models: A new paradigm of ..., Volume 2. p. 69-90
“He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden.”
Nathanael West book Miss Lonelyhearts
Source: Miss Lonelyhearts
“I am not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
This is a quote by Newt Gingrich, first appearing in an article in the Los Angeles Times in 1991. http://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-25/magazine/tm-2004_1_newt-gingrich/2 <br class="br">Misattributed
“Alas, we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Rises
“She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
Source: The Eye of the World
“Just so you know, you can call me anything you want—just as long as you always call me.”
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: Through the Zombie Glass
“It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.”
Janet Fitch book White Oleander
Source: White Oleander
“All I ever wanted was a world without maps.”
Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient
Source: The English Patient
Richard Halliburton (1900–1939) American writer
The Royal Road to Romance (1925).
Context: Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world... and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going to do with it? Certainly not squander its gold on the commonplace quest for riches and respectability, and then secretly lament the price that had to be paid for these futile ideals. Let those who wish have their respectability -- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and the romantic.
“I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.”
Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host
Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
“There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.”
David Adams Richards (1950) Canadian writer and politician
Source: Mercy Among the Children
“If you don't want to do something, don't impose on others”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
“Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.”
Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay
Source: Mockingjay
David Levithan book Every Day
Variant: I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
Source: Every Day
“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”
Joseph Heller book Something Happened
Something Happened (1974)
“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”
Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.”
O. Henry (1862–1910) American short story writer
Last words, quoting a 1907 song by Harry Williams. (5 June 1910) Quoted in O. Henry Biography, ch. 9, Charles Alphonso Smith (1916).
Variant: Turn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark.
“She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.”
David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
Kresley Cole American writer
Variant: If you want to communicate an idea to a man's brain, talk to him through his pecker. It's like an ear horn, y'all.
Source: Lothaire
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
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Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.”
Lindsey Davis (1949) English novelist
Source: The Course of Honor
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
“This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.”
Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“If I looked like him,” Tara said. “I’d want to have sex with myself. All the time.”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Simply Irresistible
“It's true. I…… I wanted to be born in the year of the cat……!”
Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist
Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 1
Brandon Sanderson book Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“I’m tired of my life and my mind wants to die.”
Sarah Kane book 4.48 Psychosis
Source: 4.48 Psychosis
