Quotes about want page 51
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.”
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“We want what we can’t have, even when we have no right to demand it.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: Firefight
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Froi of the Exiles
“History is is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 39
“You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.”
Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel
Source: Everything I Never Told You
“… when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Vanishing Acts
Terri Blackstock (1957) American writer
Source: Last Light
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Variant: Qhuinn wanted to scream... Yes he has!!!
Source: Lover Reborn
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”
Cary Grant (1904–1986) British-American film and stage actor
As quoted in "Even I want to be Cary Grant" by John Preston in The Telegraph (6 March 2005)]
“Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true”
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
“She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.”
Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead
Source: The Fountainhead
“I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.”
Jonathan Franzen (1959) novelist
Source: The Discomfort Zone: A Personal Journey
“Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.”
Anthony Kiedis book Scar Tissue
Source: Scar Tissue
“I love you. Still not the right word, but i know you want to hear it.”
Sylvia Day (1973) American writer
Source: Reflected in You
“I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.”
Maggie Nelson (1973) American writer
Source: The Argonauts
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) German philosopher
Source: Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964), p. 101 http://books.google.com/books?id=7RP-TggufEEC&pg=PA101 <br class="br">Context: We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said. It would be an inadmissible abstraction to contend that we must first have achieved a contemporaneousness with the author or the original reader by means of a reconstruction of his historical horizon before we could begin to grasp the meaning of what is said. A kind of anticipation of meaning guides the effort to understand from the very beginning.
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: 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.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master…
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, I've Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
Context: Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. 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. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
“I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.”
Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox
“If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul.
It takes one to know one!”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”
Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States
Teresa Medeiros (1962) American writer
Source: A Whisper of Roses
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
“Wanting and needing are two different things.”
Richelle Mead (1976) American writer
Source: Succubus Dreams
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Source: An Object of Beauty
“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters
“If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Variant: Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.”
Nicholas Sparks A Bend in the Road
Source: A Bend in the Road
“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Source: Brave New World
“I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)”
Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
“Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist
“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
“Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?"-Massie Block”
Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer
Source: Massie
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (1968) Canadian writer
Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Devil in Winter
U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007) Indian philosopher
Source: No Way Out (2002), Ch. 7: What Kind Of Human Being Do You Want?
Context: 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. All these therapies, all these techniques, religious or otherwise, are only perpetuating the agony of man.