Quotes about want

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“I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.”

“Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.”

“You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U. S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.”

“You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing. Children who no longer needed you. A husband who no longer wanted you. Nothing left but you, alone, and empty space.”

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”

“If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.”

“I also want to tell him how much I already miss him. But that wouldn't be fair on my part.”

“Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?”

“There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.”

“Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies… for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.”

“I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.”

“Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.”

“I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.”

“This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.”

“We want what we can’t have, even when we have no right to demand it.”

“The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.”

“I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.”

“I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.”

“History is is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”

“When I wanted information, it was silent; when I didn't want to hear from it, it got chatty.
It was alost as irritating as Fang.”

“You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.”

“Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past.”

“Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.”

“Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat;
Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best;
Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.”

“… when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”

“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.”

“You’re my wife, Eva. I don’t care if anyone else knows it or not, I know it. And I want to come home to you, have coffee in the morning with you, zip up the back of your dresses, and unzip them at night.”

“I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried a part of my life along with my dog.”

“Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her off anywhere she wanted to go.”

“… every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.”

“Qhuinn wanted to say”

“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”

“Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true”

“She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.”

“I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.”

“Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.”

“When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.”

“That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.”

“I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want… and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God”

“I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.”

“Somehow he managed to look cool despite the heat. It made Clary want to smack him.”

“Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends…that's what makes them friends…
Pretty Little Liars”

“I love you. Still not the right word, but i know you want to hear it.”

“Storiesto be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.”

“I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.”

“I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live.”

“We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said.”

“I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.”

“I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.”

“Love does not grown on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional)LOVE..”

“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.”

“Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.”

“Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people?”

“Like any man, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land.”

“If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.”

“I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.”

“Nakata's empty inside… Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most”

“Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.”

“If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul.
It takes one to know one!”

“His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.”

“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”

“Princess,” he whispered against her ear. “My beautiful, beautiful princess. I want to spoil you. Pamper you. Indulge you.”

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.”

“Wanting and needing are two different things.”

“If she wanted my money, I'd give her every cent. If she wanted another man, I'd make her forget him”

“You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.”

“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”

“If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.”

“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.”

“I saw him open his mouth wide… as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.”

“If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”

“She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.”

“God wants you to have a good life, a life filled with love, joy, peace, and fulfillment. That doesn’t mean it will always be easy, but it does mean that it will always be good.”

“Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.”

“I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.”

“You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.”

“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”

“I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)”

“All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.”

“Next to me, Saiman smiled.
"We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.”

“If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.”

“Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.”

“I don't ever want to live in a world where something like mercy… or maybe it's compassion… is thechoice.”

“The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens, and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.”

“Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you”

“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”

“Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.”

“One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?"-Massie Block”

“Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.”

“There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.”

“It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.”

“Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.”

“People aren't always what you want them to be”

“I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.”

“Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Marji: I'll be a prophet.”

“The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.”

“I have it on good authority that Victor's going to have car trouble. Also that Robert really likes Cheerios, so if you want some, you're out of luck. He doesn't seem like the sharing type.”

“You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock."
"Very amusing, my sarcastic friend. It's not a rock, precisely. All Shadowhunters have a witchlight rune-stone.”