Quotes about want

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“Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day..”

“what's the matter?" he asked
"nothing"
"what do you want me to do for you?"
"i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older"
what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am.”

“The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter”

“Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.”

“… for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.”

“If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.”

“You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.”

“It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.”

“He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.”

“If I want to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube. ~ Acheron, a character.”

“And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.”

“It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.”

“You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.”

“I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.”

“Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear.
He had said the sky should always be blue for her.”

“We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance.”

“There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.”

“I haven’t even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.”

“But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down.”

“I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.”

“Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.”

“I'd missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit.”

“Yeah, that's exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back." He turned away again, and I heard him mutter, "I needdrinks.”

“You don’t knock on the devil’s door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)”

“You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly"
-Baby Carlyle”

“The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.”

“I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want.”

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”

“Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness.”

“Saxton was indeed clear on things: Blay was still in love with Qhuinn— and probably always would be.
“Why?” he said to his lover.
“Because I want you for however long I have you.”

“I don't think we have a future. I know we do. I want to marry you and have kids and be a stay-at-home writer dad while you take Boston journalism by storm. I want to wake up beside you every day for the rest of my life.”

“I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she's a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.”

“That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?”

“If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.”

“Shut up, Axl!" he whispered fiercly. "If you want to break your neck, do it quietly or I'll break it for you.”

“A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory… a far-off memory that's like a scattered dream… i want to line the pieces up… yours and mine.”

“I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday.”

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”

“I care about who you are, who you have been, who you want to be. I open myself to you to listen and learn about you. I cherish you, not just my fantasy of who you are, not just who I need you to be, but who you really are…”

“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”

“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”

“You doona want to kill me, which is a good sign. Maybe this is your way of flirting?” (Garreth)”

“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.”

“I want leisure to read—an immense amount.”

“I love you. And I don't want to lose you.”

“Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.”

“I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.”

“Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.”

“Never give up what you want most for what you want today.”

“My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to report him for child molesting. He had never molested me, but I wanted to have a party that weekend and needed him out of the house.”

“You can choose to die. You can choose to run… but dying alone won't change a thing. Trust me on that one. If you really want things to change… you're going to have to live.”

“Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.”

“Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds.”

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”

“… perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it.”

“Well. Like I said, I dont want to fight anymore. I dont want us to hate each other. And… well… I squeezed my eyes shut and then opened them. No matter how I fee about us… I want you to be happy”

“Who wants us?" Bianca demanded. "Because if you think you'll get a ransom, you're wrong. We don't have any family. Nico and I—" Her voice broke a little. "We've got no one but each other.”

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.”

“I want to rip off your logic
and make passionate sense to you.”

“There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.”

“I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.”

“I just want to let you know that when I look into my future, I see nothing but you.” That’s what Chaz had whispered in my ear at some point during the wedding last night.

Then he’d whispered. “And you’re not even wearing Spanx.”

“If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.”

“There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud”

“If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.”

“Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.”

“All right, two dozen house specials. Any chance one of you might want to live dangerously and try a vegetable? (Aimee)
Do we look like rabbits to you? (Fury)”

“Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.”

“Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.”

“I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!”

“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”

“If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.”

“I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances, Be more active, Show up more often.”

“Who said anything about slicing you up?… I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.”

“I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.”

“He didn’t want to spend the rest of his life looking like an extra from The Walking Dead.”

“His lips pressed against her forehead and she felt him smile against her skin. "Believe me… the only place in the world I want to be is wherever you are."

-Grant Morgan”

“A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.”

“But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?”

“If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day… You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning…”

“Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake.”

“Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.”

“On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.”

“Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?”

“Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.”

“Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

“You're a girl. Someday you'll want to be a prisoner to someone other than yourself.”

“His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?"
I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.”

“Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn”

“The saddest thing was actually getting fed up with one another. It's like growing up in a family. When you get to a certain age, you want to go off and get your own girl and your own car, split up a bit.”

“As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.”

“I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.”

“If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.”

“I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”

“Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.”

“If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me." -Hatsuharu”

“She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.”

“Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon”