Quotes about want
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“And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?”

Natalie Angier (1958) American writer

Source: Woman: An Intimate Geography

“We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.”

Jenny Colgan (1972) British writer

Life

“If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.”

Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman

Coffee, Drink, Understanding

“You just wanted to prove there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

Love

“If you can't do what you want, do what you can.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Variant: When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.
Source: Miles Errant

“I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am…”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Feeling

“I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!"
"Finish your eggs first.”

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

Source: A Raisin in the Sun

Sun, Flying

“I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Parent

“We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Love, God, Feeling, Joy

“I'm telling you, I wanted to. But I was trapped. You of all people should know what it's like being caught between groups”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

People

“I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.”

Pat Conroy book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

Happiness, Thinking, Time

“Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.”

J.M. Coetzee book Summertime

Source: Summertime

People, Personality

“I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

“Now that I'm in your mind, want to see some naked mental pictures of Jace?”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

World, Painting

“The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail.
These two are my junk mail.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“Your name is Lily Whitney. You are the woman I want at my side night and day. I want you to be the mother of my children someday. I want you for my lover. I want you for the person I turn to when the world gets to be too much.”

Christine Feehan book Shadow Game

Source: Shadow Game

Children, World, Lovers, Personality

“I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.”

Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

Drink, Thinking, Night

“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”

Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist

Love

“I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

Help

“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Beauty

“Daniel?"
"Yes."
"Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?"
"No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

Thinking

“It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.”

Oriah Mountain Dreamer (1954) Canadian author

Study

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Variant: Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Motivational, Back To Work

“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

Pain, Happiness, Education, Hope

“People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.”

Rachel Kushner book The Flamethrowers

Source: The Flamethrowers

Love, People

“The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.”

Stephen King book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Source: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)

World

“I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.”

Leo Tolstoy book The Kreutzer Sonata

Source: The Kreutzer Sonata

Lovers

“… like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?”

Robin McKinley book The Blue Sword

Source: The Blue Sword

“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”

Aldous Huxley book Antic Hay

Source: Antic Hay

Life, Happiness, Art, Suffering

“But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Exiled Queen

World

“Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

God, Way, Courage

“I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8)”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Hawksong

Source: Hawksong

Hate, Cry

“Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

World

“Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Time

“I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?”

Curtis Sittenfeld (1975) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Man of My Dreams

Happiness

“I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=r03gAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+have+found+the+best+way+to+give+advice+to+your+children+is+to+find+out+what+they+want+and+then+advise+them+to+do+it%22&pg=PA104#v=onepage with Margaret Truman, sitting in for host Edward R. Murrow, on Person to Person, CBS Television ( 27 May 1955 http://www.tv.com/shows/person-to-person/may-27-1955-1040725/)

Children, Way, Graduation

“The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist

Source: The Hour I First Believed

Way

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Princess on the Brink

Hate, Fish

“God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself;
for Thou art enough for me,
and I can ask for nothing less
that can be full honor to Thee.
And if I ask anything that is less,
ever Shall I be in want,
for only in Thee have I all.”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress

The First Revelation, Chapter 5
Context: Also our Lord God shewed that it is full great pleasance to Him that a helpless soul come to Him simply and plainly and homely. For this is the natural yearnings of the soul, by the touching of the Holy Ghost (as by the understanding that I have in this Shewing): God, of Thy Goodness, give me Thyself: for Thou art enough to me, and I may nothing ask that is less that may be full worship to Thee; and if I ask anything that is less, ever me wanteth, — but only in Thee I have all.
And these words are full lovely to the soul, and full near touch they the will of God and His Goodness. For His Goodness comprehendeth all His creatures and all His blessed works, and overpasseth without end. For He is the endlessness, and He hath made us only to Himself, and restored us by His blessed Passion, and keepeth us in His blessed love; and all this of His Goodness.

God, Art