Top 100 Everyone Wants Quotes
#1. One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
Nate Berkus
#2. Everyone wants the people to end up together in the end. It's human nature. The funny thing is, you always know they're going to. You just never know how.
Jessi Kirby
#5. Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
Alain De Botton
#6. Everyone wants to change humanity, but no one is willing to change themselves.
Leo Tolstoy
#7. Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.
Criss Jami
#8. On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means.
But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
Mary Oliver
#9. Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.
Cary Fukunaga
#10. Everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...
John Geddes
#11. Everyone has an ulterior motive. Everyone wants something, and everyone is willing to do whatever they have
to in order to get it. Regardless of who winds up hurt in the process.
Kyra Dune
#12. I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.
Edward Whitacre Jr.
#13. Sure you do. Everyone wants to play. They're just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what's stupid? Not trying. So just ... try.
Victoria Scott
#14. Everyone Wants to Be as Free as a Bird, but None is so Freely
Jan Jansen
#15. Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.
Samantha Morton
#16. They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?
Libba Bray
#17. Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated
Laurell K. Hamilton
#18. I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.
Paula Radcliffe
#19. Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Brene Brown
#20. Maybe I went a bit too far, but that's what people want now. There's an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature. Everyone wants to see children treated badly. So that ... well, so that when they triumph over evil we all feel lifted up. It's inspirational.
Tony Burgess
#21. And it's California, where everything is powerfully strange. Everyone wants it to be home. Everyone left where he or she was from with dreams of transformation. Everyone runs away to California at least once, or at least all the lonely, hungry people do.
Marya Hornbacher
#22. It's like running away to join the circus, everyone wants to do it when they're young but then you grow up and get a proper job. But somebody's got to do it or you wouldn't have the circus.
Katie McGrath
#24. I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.
TobyMac
#25. Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.
Michael York
#26. It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.
David Cottrell
#27. Put something new on the table and everyone wants a piece of it.
Naren Singh
#28. My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.
Blake Judd
#29. Everyone wants to spend their life's Moments joyfully with Anybody till best opportunity to be avail ...
Arbab Jehangir
#30. Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.
Lech Walesa
#31. Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.
Will Rogers
#32. I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I'm going to be excited to play for that team, and I can't wait to see myself in 'Madden' on that team.
Robert Griffin III
#33. Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a lawyer.
Jessi Klein
#34. Love is not, anywhere, taken seriously. It's not respected. It's the one thing in the world everyone wants, but for some reason people are obliged to pretend that love is trifling and foolish.
Carol Shields
#35. Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.
Susie Bright
#36. Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.
Shelley Long
#37. It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.
Sterling W. Sill
#38. I guess I just want to do something amazing with my life. Isn't that what everyone wants?
Mira Grant
#39. Everyone wants to save Man, but no one wants to know about men.
Jose Saramago
#40. People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.
A.M. Homes
#41. As I see our world, I have never seen greater confusion, greater loss of meaning, greater uncertainty, and greater fear of what looms in front of us. Politics has gotten out of control everywhere. Nobody sees a mascot or a leader, and everyone wants to know what really lies ahead here.
Ravi Zacharias
#42. I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?
Ruth Negga
#43. The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
Evelyn Waugh
#44. Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
Mary Kay Ash
#45. Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It's what you do the other six days that decides the outcome
Lou Holtz
#46. Everyone wants to leave an extraordinary life.
John Green
#47. Everyone wants to look great in the summer ... Don't just dream, take action!
Your journey to being a summer yummer starts today.
Steve Maraboli
#48. Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.
Dylan Moran
#49. Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.
John C. Maxwell
#50. Everyone wants the same; everyone is the
same; he who has other sentiments goes voluntarily into the madhouse.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#51. Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
#52. Everyone wants to protect their heart, but without pain, one can never have joy.
Jaycee Ford
#53. I think that everyone wants sexy hair, and when they think of sexy hair they think of volume - they don't think about flat, limp, lifeless hair. But for some women, it's hard to achieve because we're constantly buying these volumizing shampoos [that] leave a residue in your hair ...
Chrissy Teigen
#54. In Kazakhstan, once you're someone's guest, it's really hard to get away - everyone wants you to stay. They believe that if you invite a guest, luck will fly into your house.
Tim Cope
#55. Everyone wants something miraculous to have faith in.
Chris Dietzel
#56. Everyone wants everyone to be perfect for them, but they don't want themselves to be perfect for others ...
Anonymous
#57. The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty.
Christopher McQuarrie
#58. It's what everyone wants when they're breaking someone's heart: to be rid of the person and yet absolved of guilt, of the unhappiness they've caused. They want their rationalizations heard and gulped up by the wronged, and they want their victims to go away, peacefully. To never be haunted again.
Ibi Kaslik
#59. Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.
James Randi
#60. What I find about wedding plans is that everyone wants to talk about when I don't. As soon as I do feel like talking about my wedding plans, their eyes glaze over and I can see them wishing they were dead
Suzanne Finnamore
#61. Everyone wants to be great, until it's time to do what greatness requires.
Joshua Medcalf
#62. Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut ...
Eric Thomas
#63. In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.
Leighton Meester
#64. Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.
Compay Segundo
#65. Everyone wants to be the survivor, but they seldom realize how very high the cost is.
B.G. Harlen
#66. Don't always seek the approval of others concerning your goals or dreams. Not everyone wants to see you succeed, just because they are not successful.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#67. You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.
Branford Marsalis
#68. I know that everyone wants to know about 'Downton Abbey,' but the truth is that it was only a few days out of my life. Still, you play a distinctive part on a hit series, and everyone suddenly knows who you are. Isn't it crazy how this business works?
Theo James
#70. Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. Everyone wants to pluck eyebrows. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me.
Denise Richards
#72. The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written some good short stories, everyone wants you to write a novel. But nobody wants anything until you have already proved yourself by being published somewhere else.
James A. Michener
#73. The big trouble," he added, "is that everyone wants someone else to read their minds for them and then make the world work properly.
Terry Pratchett
#74. Pride entices us to favor people who build up our egos. Everyone wants to feel accepted and loved. The best way to rid your life of pride is to surround yourself with people who care for you for the right reasons and not just to stroke your ego. Pride is
Charles F. Stanley
#75. Everyone wants to be king," said Vortalis. "Not me," said Holland. "Well, then you're either a liar or a fool.
V.E Schwab
#76. Everyone wants their love story just the way we watch on movies and when little does it happen in reality they say we are being dramatic
D.N. Joshi
#77. Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.
Frederic Bastiat
#78. Everyone wants to look good in photographs, even us trolls who tell jokes.
Doug Benson
#79. Everyone wants to see change in their life but very few people want to be that change they are waiting to see.
Timothy Pina
#80. I'll tell you what isn't; why'd they only go for you? I mean me and Steve might as well have not even been there. They just wanted you.
Well, can you blame them? I mean, everyone wants a piece of this sweet ass.
S.L.J. Shortt
#81. The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.
Steven Gerrard
#82. I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#83. Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.
Timbaland
#84. everyone wants perfect love... no one wants to be a perfect lover...
Brijesh Singh
#85. Everyone wants to marry and Irish girl, they have the most beautiful babies.
Don J. Snyder
#86. Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.
Chuck Palahniuk
#87. Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.
Douglas Coupland
#88. Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
Gary Zukav
#89. I think everyone wants for their kids the good things that they had.
Kirsten Dunst
#90. You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.
Wayne Dyer
#91. I realize I'm not different. I want what everyone wants. I want what they all want. I want all the things. I just want to be happy.
Hannah
#92. Are you all right?" The question surprised Jess, and it broke through his black shell enough to make him throw a look at his friend. "No." I didn't think you were. Everyone wants you to be. That must be worse, that they think you should be fine.
Rachel Caine
#93. Isn't that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered?
Ann Patchett
#94. Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.
Helen Mirren
#95. Everyone wants to be perceived a certain way, to gain the things that they have decided are the things that they want in their life.
Willi Smith
#96. Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
Victoria Justice
#98. No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
#99. I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
Tina Weymouth
#100. Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.
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