Quotes about want

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“I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."”

“But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don’t want to do.”

“The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.”

“If you want someone to be ignored, then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town…”

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

“I want him to love me as much as I love him.”

“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.”

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”

“Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.”

“I don't want… to run away by myself… because no matter what… I'd rather be together with everyone…”

“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.”

“All things want to float.”

“…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”

“If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.”

“You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some things, don't you?'
'Yeah. You remember the things you want to forget and forget the things you want to remember.”

“You can't just avoid the game by saying you don't want to play.”

“You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this:
“Rejoice evermore.
Pray without ceasing.
In everything give thanks.”
I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.”

“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

--from WHEN DEATH COMES”

“And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.”

“I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.”

“love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love, with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.”

“Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown — even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.”

“It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.”

“I don't want to put the world to rights… I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”

“There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.”

“The smile made her want to hug him, and maybe love him up some more. Stupid smile.”

“When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet… When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world…”

“Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.”

“I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.”

“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say.”

“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.”

“The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.”

“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.”

“I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.”

“If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.”

“Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.”

“What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.”

“Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.”

“If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.”

“And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.”

“Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”

“I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”

“If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.”

“If I want a long boring story with no point to it, I have my life.”

“I wanted to do things to Richard that would make the sun grow cold with horror.”

“I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.”

“I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”

“So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.”

“She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.”

“It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do -need to do- more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.”

“Keep things at arm's length… If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.”

“I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”

“Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.”

“I just found you - I don't want to leave you so soon.”

“I don't want realism. I want magic!”

“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.”

“Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.”

“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.”

“In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.”

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”

“No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.”

“When I want to read a novel, I write one.”

“Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.”

“We all do, kid. People have destructive impulses. Some of us want to see the world in ruins just for the fun of it… even if we're ruined along with it.”

“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”

“I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash
I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want)”

“I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.”

“I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.”

“I gave him my hard stare. “You're a control freak and I fight all authority. And you want us to mate?”
A wicked spark lit his eyes. “Many, many times.”

“Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.”

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”

“Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.”

“True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."”

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”

“Explain to me what loving feels like, Beth. I want to understand.”

“… there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.”

“So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.”

“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”

“Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you're afraid some day you might lose it.”

“I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

“Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.”

“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”

“No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.”

“Kennedy was not impressed by military objections. The Bay of Pigs had taught the President to distrust the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “The first advice I’m going to give my successor,” he once said to his journalist friend Ben Bradlee, “is to watch the generals and to avoid feeling that because they were military men their opinions on military matters were worth a damn.”4 During the missile crisis Kennedy courteously and consistently rejected the Joint Chiefs’ bellicose recommendations. “These brass hats have one great advantage in their favor,” he said. “If we…do what they want us to do, none of us will be alive later to tell them that they were wrong.”5”

“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.”

“I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll have at the end of your life is wasted time.”

“When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.”

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

“In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.”

“The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.”

“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.”

“On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree”

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”

“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to,
when all they need is one reason why they can”

“There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.”

“Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about”