Quotes about want

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“Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.”

“If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.”

“I want to be with you. It's as simple, and as complicated as that.”

“Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.”

“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life”

“Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause he had come, to bring peace to the enemies of God. So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work. 'The kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing who would ever have been spared' (Luther).”

“[…] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.”

“If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.”

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”

“A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.”

“Marriage is a wonderful institution… but who wants to live in an institution?”

“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire.”

“Fire wants to burn
Water wants to flow
Air wants to rise
Earth wants to bind
Chaos wants to devour
Cal wants to live”

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”

“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.”

“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”

“In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats”

“Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.”

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.”

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about you.”

“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”

“Do not think I do not know that Cecily wants you to return home with her. And do not think I do not know that you remain for Jem's sake."

"And yours," he said before he could stop himself.”

“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”

“You don't need me. What you really need is a mirror. Because any stranger is for you simply a mirror in which to reflect yourself. I don't ever again want to return to such a desert of mirrors.”

“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”

“I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.”

“Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.”

“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”

“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.”

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”

“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.”

“When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.”

“everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.”

“If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.”

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”

“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”

“I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.”

“If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!”

“I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]”

“Did you really want to die?"
"No one commits suicide because they want to die."
"Then why do they do it?"
"Because they want to stop the pain.”

“Did you know that baby,
You're the bluebird in my sky,
I only want to make you happy
Because I love you see you fly”

“We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?”

“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.”

“Harry Dresden: Took cover. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.”

“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.”

“When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said:
''do you want me to get them off the car?''
and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it”

“We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.”

“In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.”

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”

“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.”

“If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.”

“Nowadays, everybody fancies himself an expert in government and wants to have a say.”

“I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!”

“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now”

“What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart.”

“A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.”

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”

“Shura… are you… in love with me?"
"Turn to me," Alexander said. She turned. "Tatia, I worship you. I'm crazy in love with you. I want you to marry me.”

“I am what I wanted and I want what I am.”

“Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.”

“What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.”

“I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.”

“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”

“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”

“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.”

“The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.”

“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”

“Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.”

“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.”

“When you smoke (ganja) you don't want to war.”

“I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.”

“If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day,
You have to go places quite out of the way,
You have to go places no others can get to.
You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.”

“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”

“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”

“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”

“Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth."

"You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around… him. It makes total sense.”

“All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.”

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”

“If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.”

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”

“If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.”

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”

“When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.”

“Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain.”

“Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.
Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.
Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its "people's sovereignty" the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don't want to be recognized.”

“Harvard's motto is "Veritas." Many of you have already found out and others will find out in the course of their lives that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit. And even while it eludes us, the illusion still lingers of knowing it and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth is seldom pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter. There is some bitterness in my speech today, too. But I want to stress that it comes not from an adversary but from a friend.”

“Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.”

“The Zulu king [Zwelithini] must stop these threats of violence. We are not scared. I am scared of no one. No amount of violence can scare me because some of us are surprised that we are still alive today. … We want every Zulu-speaking person to get a piece of land. If the king wants to give land through the Ingonyama Trust, he must convince the EFF and the government.”

“I'm tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race, they simply don't want to change!”