Quotes about want

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“High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.”

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

“You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.”

“its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself”

“You don't need a reason to forgive… If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.”

“I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.”

“There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.”

“You've maddened me for you… have changed everything. So, I'm going to f*ck you long and hard, beauty, because if I'm to be enslaved by you-I want to be your master as well.”

“what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.”

“If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.”

“People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to”

“Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.”

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”

“Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.”

“If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.”

“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”

“I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour!”

“I never cared,” he said. “I wanted you anyway. I always wanted you.”

“Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.”

“Calvin: From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success…. I'm just here to cash in.
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“wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness”

“Billions of things are going on in this world. You can think about it all you want, but life is still going to keep on happening.”

“Again, I repeat, don’t ask questions you don’t want answered. Just accept the fact that Acheron is a freak of nature and let it go. (Zarek)”

“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”

“Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.”

“He hadn’t stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking.
He wondered if you could be exhausted without knowing it, if hope could be lost not all at once but could slip away gradually, day by day, and vanish before you ever realized.”

“For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.”

“The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.”

“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.”

“… she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see…”

“She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.”

“Sometimes life is not about what u want to do but what u ought to do”

“I wanted to touch him like he was a bunny, a kitten, something so special and soft your fingertips can’t leave it alone.”

“I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.”

“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”

“I've played the powerless in too many dark scenes. I was blessed with a birth and a death and I guess I just want some say in between”

“I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.”

“Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.”

“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.”

“Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.”

“As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.”

“It was the heaviest thing I'd ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. I wanted to black out from the pain, but I breathed deeply.”

“I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't want to get so used to falling in love that i get curious to experience something more extreme - whatever that may be.”

“I want to tell her revenge is a devil you don’t want to worship. In destroying your enemy you become it.”

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”

“NO! Don't force yourself to be alone! If you're alive, you can meet that person, somewhere, someday! The person that will be glad that you're alive! You can't… you can't want yourself to die!! So… live…”

“Ranger Smiled. 'You want me to be Superman? Spend the night with me.”

“I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.”

“If you want someone to tell you what to think…"

"You will never be short of people willing to do so.”

“When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?”

“Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)”

“To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation.”

“Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.”

“And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it.”

“She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.”

“But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.”

“Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.”

“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”

“I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.”

“Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.”

“Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.”

“So where do you start when you want to start your life again?”

“Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”

“I didn’t want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used to have a few beers with your dad.”

“I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.

I want.”

“He closed his eyes. “I’m so tired, Tess,” he said. “I only wanted pleasant dreams for once.”
“That is not the way to get them, Will,” she said softly. “You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size”

“Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo”

“I want to be that person for him, I want to be the one who keeps him going during this difficult time.”

“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

“I'll never know what it was he wanted me to remember.”

“Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.”

“He wanted to give her another word to say, something like luscious or whisper or strawberry. Hell, antidisestablishmentarianism would do it.”

“They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.”

“The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody”

“He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.”

“He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.”

“Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.”

“Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.”

“No, not you two. Stay here.'
'Does he just not get how unfair and sexist that is?' Eve asked. 'Men.'
'You really want to go first?'
'Of course no. But I'd like the chance toto go first.”

“Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.”

“Take what you want, and pay for it.”

“If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.”

“What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.”

“The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen”

“See the TURTLE of enormous girth,
On his shell he holds the earth.
If you want to run and play,
Come along the BEAM today.”

“… It makes me cry, I want to talk about something I am not sure I can talk about, I want to talk about the inside from the inside, I do not want to leave it
I am so happy in the silky damp dark of the labyrinth and there is no thread”

“I can buy your contract.” “No, you can’t. Any sale of our mortgage requires my consent, and I won’t consent to it.” He grinned. “You don’t want to work under me?” “I’m not even going to dignify that with an answer.”

“If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.”

“I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.”

“But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.”

“Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.”

“The angel brought you back."
"Because you asked him to. You could have anything alse in the world, and you asked for me."
"But I dont want anything else in the world. I love you. I would do it again. I would ask for you.”

“Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?”

“If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.”

“Before you make a decision," he said, "I want you to know that I love you.”

“a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us
sick.”

“I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what i want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God.”

“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.”

“Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.”