Quotes about want
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“That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Source: Paint it Black

Memory, Forgetting

“Your hands on a gun butt right now, isn't it? Afraid of me?”
“Just want to make sure I can take care of you.”
“Oh, really?”
“Yeah, in case you need Glock-to-mouth-resuscitation.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.”

Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven

Source: The Fires of Heaven

Way, Fight

“He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided that that was about as far as he wanted to extend the family.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Family, Learning

“It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Way, Country

“He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.”

Douglas Adams book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“It was like this sometimes, and I felt I should look away, but I couldn't. I wanted to be there, having my face touched, defeating a heart like Peter's, but the next best thing was seeing it for Tiger Lily.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Heart

“I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.”

Jonathan Lethem You Don't Love Me Yet

Source: You Don't Love Me Yet

World, Parting

“Shake your fist all you want but dead is dead.”

Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon

Source: Gardens of the Moon

Dead

“I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Way, Failure, Memory, Fight

“Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

Waiting

“The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.”

Jamie Lee Curtis (1958) actress, author

People

“I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“Just because i know how to change a guys oil doesn't mean i want to spend the rest of my life on my back, staring up his undercarriage.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

Source: Metro Girl

Life, Guy, Change

“I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Nausea (1938)
Source: Nausea, The Wall and Other Stories

Life, Time

“I never panic when I get lost. I just change where it is I want to go.”

Rita Rudner (1953) American comedian

Change

“people saw what they wanted to see. They didn't need the Mist to warp their perceptions.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Variant: But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.
Source: The Mark of Athena

People

“I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since…”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

Truth, Wine

“Hey!” I said, indignation filling me. “I’m immortal! Doesn’t that mean I won’t get saggy boobs and gray hair? Because if it doesn’t mean that, I want a refund—”

Katie MacAlister (1964) Author

Source: Holy Smokes

“Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.”

Candace Bushnell book One Fifth Avenue

Source: One Fifth Avenue

Money, Art

“I wanted so terribly to be good to him.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Money, People, World

“i suppose i have a really loose interpretation of "work", because i think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. the machinery is always going. even when you sleep”

Andy Warhol book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Variant: I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 6: Work
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Context: I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work" because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Thinking, Sleep