Quotes about want
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“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go someplace where you don't know a soul? Sometimes I feel like doing that. I really really want to do it sometimes.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Feeling, Soul, Thinking

“If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

God

“It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.”

Mario Vargas Llosa book The Time of the Hero

The Time of the Hero (1963)

“Love overlooks a person’s faults. That’s not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

Love, God, People, Evil

“And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

Life, Money, Truth

“I gave you sympathy. *I* want sympathy!"

"Are you kidding me? You have the sexiest man on the planet wanting you. You're getting laid regularly. No sympathy for you!”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Simply Irresistible

“And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

Children, Grass

“We needn't talk about Tessa if you don't want to, you know."
"It's not Tessa." This was true. Will hadn't been thinking of Tessa. He was getting good at not thinking about her, really; all it took was determination and practice.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Thinking

“This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Goodbye Tsugumi

Source: Goodbye Tsugumi

World, Forgetting

“Because I don't have everything I want. Not even close.”

Alyson Nöel book Dark Flame

Source: Dark Flame

“Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. His impatience makes him feel that he is incontrovertibly, finally, an adult.”

Jhumpa Lahiri (1967) Short story writer, novelist

Feeling, Holiday, Christmas, Season

“You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight. Naked. Your place. But after that, no more.”

Katie MacAlister (1964) Author

Source: You Slay Me

“If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.”

Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City

Source: Sex and the City

“You both should feel honored.”
“Right, very honored,” I said. “Always wanted to be possessed!”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Feeling

“He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

“Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go.”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change”

Barbara De Angelis (1951) American psychologist

Life, Happiness, Change, Happy

“I want my fluff-fluff! (Bob)
Fluff-fluff… (Zarek looked panicked.) (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

“Interviewer: Didn'twant to believe?
Druyan:didn't want to believe. wanted to know.”

Ann Druyan (1949) American author and producer

“I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.”

Christopher Pike book The Last Vampire

Source: The Last Vampire

Parting

“And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim."
"Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey said.
Sam came over to join us. "Do I even want to know why you remember her name?”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Source: The Calling

Singing

“That was other thing I hated about kids; they always said the exact things that deep down you already knew, would never admit, and most certainly never wanted to hear.”

Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here

Source: A Place Called Here

Hate

“It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Love, People, Cry

“Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

“Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

People, Religion, Personality

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Life, Pain, Depressing

“And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.”

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

Idea, Envy

“That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.”

Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

People, Business, Problem, Thinking

“The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.”

Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Happiness

“I want to seize fate by the throat.”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

Letter to F.G. Wegeler, 16 November, 1801.

Fate

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.”

Luke Davies (1962) Australian writer

Source: Candy

Love, Thinking

“Maybe Liz was right and she'd wanted someplace safe. Maybe Mr. Solomon really did understand that running was the only way Macey would find out if we'd run after her. Or maybe, like me, she just wanted to disappear for a little while”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Way, Understanding

“Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?”

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

Source: Love Bites

Life

“Here's how bizarre the war is that we're in in Iraq, and we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went into Iraq, Germany didn't want to go. Germany. The Michael Jordan of war took a pass.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

Stand-up performance at RIT (2005)

War

“he wanted to say. And not “we” as in the Brotherhood.

Not even “we” as in he and John.

More like … “me”.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

“There are things you don't want to know you can do”

Robin McKinley book Sunshine

Source: Sunshine

“As she turned to concentrate on the portal, Eve tugged on Claire's shirt. "What?"
"Ask him where he got the boots."
"You ask." Personally, Claire wanted the vampire bunny slippers.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Fade Out

Personality

“I don't want to say something cheesy like 'home is where the heart is,' but home is definitely where the heart is. And my heart is, and has always been, with you.”

Melissa Senate (1965) american writer

Source: The Breakup Club

Home, Heart

“I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.”

Temple Grandin (1947) USA-american doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist

Life, Money

“I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

“I’m neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

“I don't want to be a man. I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Jace to Clary, pg. 45
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

People

“She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else”

Lev Grossman book The Magician's Land

Source: The Magician's Land

Books, World, Feeling

“Gazzy: (Hugging himself and jumping up and down) "I'm brilliant! I'm a genius! I can blow up the world!"
Max: (Raises her eyebrows)
Gazzy: "Not that I would want to, of course," (coughs)”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

World

“I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

Source: The Lover

Beauty, Thinking

“Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

People, Thinking

“I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.”

Jeffrey R. Holland (1940) Mormon leader

God, Books, World

“When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.”

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian

Soul

“Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Baby, Training, Dead

“If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

Feeling

“And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me?

And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Question

“The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.”

Nancy Garden book Annie on My Mind

Source: Annie on My Mind

Cats

“What’s your name?”
“What do you want it to be?”
“Are you a vampire?”
“Not the last time I checked.”

Kresley Cole book The Warlord Wants Forever

Source: The Warlord Wants Forever

Time

“Guy? Mister? Mr. Goth Man, would you please wake up so I can leave? I really don't want to hang out in a closet with a dead man any longer than I have to, okay? C'mon, please, don't make this a Weekend at Bernie's thing! (Amanda)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Guy, Dead

“O starry night, This is how I want to die”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: The Complete Poems

Night

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read…”

Keri Hulme book The Bone People

Source: The Bone People

Books, Reading

“I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.”

Jean Rhys book Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

Feeling

“You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Ironside

“I want nothing from love, in short, but love.”

Colette book The Vagabond

Source: The Vagabond

Love

“I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing…. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

People, Success, Personality

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

Age, Cooking

“You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You'll take care of her. I want you to take care of her.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Warrior of the Light

World, Light, Personality

“See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?" "Because when he sings… even the birds stop to listen.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Girl, Bird, Singing

“You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Parent

“Tanith has a sword.' said Valkyrie. 'I want a stick.'
'I'll get you a stick for Christmas”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Christmas

“Now Bella, you know Jacob adores you. He naturally wants to protect you. He literally worships the ground you walk on."

"Ha ha," Bella said dryly. "Earth demon. Worship the ground. Cute. Really cute.”

Jacquelyn Frank (1968) writer

Source: Gideon

Nature

“Eliza has the sky in her eyes and I’ve always wanted to touch the goddamn sky.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it … gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer

Source: (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, 2002 edition, page 15

People, Thinking, Freedom

“I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.”
Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Study, Time, Sea

“No more rhymes now I mean it!”

“Anybody want a peanut?”

“AAHH!”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?'
'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

God, Nature

“Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever; I want you more than ever.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Love, Rosie

Love

“… I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

Understanding

“The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.”

Alice Cooper (1948) American rock singer, songwriter and musician

Love, Peace

“She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

Love

“I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Happiness, Feeling, Heart

“Using your feminine wiles to lead my familiar astray. If all you want is dangerous sex, I can give that to you better than he can, and I won't break your heart afterward." - Al to Rachel”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

Sex, Heart

“I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

Evil

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: "she wanted storms.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Variant: You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...

Thinking

“She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

Fear, Drink, Loneliness

“I’ll do whatever you want, whatever you need. Anything. Just take me back.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

“The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”

Patricia A. McKillip The Bell at Sealey Head

Source: The Bell at Sealey Head

People, Books

“Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Life

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Feeling

“Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: It Happened One Autumn

God, Way

“Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away".
"If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".”

Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952) American children's writer and editor

“In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.”

Lisa See book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

World, Bird

“I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

“Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Flight Behavior

Source: Flight Behavior

Love

“How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to…”

Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Feeling, Soul, Drink, Wine

“her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Solitude, Silence

“That’s how you know you’re home, I think, no matter how far you’ve gone from it or how long you’ve been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer.”

Stephen King book Revival

Source: Revival

Home, Thinking

“He bent to put his cheek against hers. His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. "I have wanted to do this," he said, "every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Time, Personality

“My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest. page 40000”

Sarah Dessen book That Summer

Source: That Summer (1996)

Boy, Understanding, Sister, Wedding

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Quotes about want
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