Man I Want Quotes

#1. Should I trust this man? I want to. I want to just throw caution to the wind and shout, Yes! Yes! Fix me! Please make me normal. However, a nagging negative feeling restrains me. I know that if I accept this offer, something terrible will happen. Something terrible always does.

Loretta Lost

#2. The man I want to be could easily beat me up.

Dov Davidoff

#3. RUSSEL. When he grows up I want to be able to point to him and say: "There goes my son -- the man". I want to live in a masculine culture.
BONGI. That's a contradiction in terms.

Valerie Solanas

#4. I just want to make good music that, you know, appeals to all people, man. I want to branch out and you know just have a lot of multiplatinum albums.

Ruben Studdard

#5. I don't just want a man. I want an epic romance.

Abbi Glines

#6. Man, I want to die, is all," cried Ploy.
"Don't you know," said Dahoud, "that life is the most precious possession you have?

Thomas Pynchon

#7. Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.

Seal

#8. I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

#9. Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

Charles Lamb

#10. I hope you stand there for me, even though I won't be listening, I hope you speak like I am hearing, that's the man you are to me, that's the only man I want to keep here inside of me. That's the man you can be, and that's the man I will take with me.

Coco J. Ginger

#11. Now, then, young lady. Which of these gentlemen will you marry?"
"This one." She squeezed [his] arm.
The vicar inspected [him] and sniffed. "Doesnt look that much different from the other one."
"Nevertheless"- she fought to remain sober-faced- "this is the man I want.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#12. Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit."
"Well, you are pretty fruity.

Darynda Jones

#13. I like this dirty Chase, this crude and irreverent man. I want to go where he's taking me. I need to be dragged down to where he is so we can build ourselves back up, together, stronger.

S.R. Grey

#14. The man I was, the man I am, the man I will be, the man I want to be, they all belong to you. Always.

Nalini Singh

#15. Oh, sweet fuck of all fucks that are downright hot, hard and sweaty. I want this man. I want this walking, fuckable man-caramel.

K.M. Golland

#16. For years I've been trying to turn myself into someone I'm not. Because that's what Court wanted. But you get me. I can be the man I want to be with you - the man I'm meant to be. You needed me to be that man. I'm a cop. Always have been, always will be.

Julie Miller

#17. I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

Rod McKuen

#18. I have known for some time that I can meet any man I want but that does not mean that I want to meet anyone. I certainly don't like being forced into situations.

Sharon Stone

#19. I don't choose to be a common man. I want to be better tomorrow than today. And through a commitment to work and discipline, but mostly hard work. I'll be a little more content, and a little different from the average guy.

Jay Robinson

#20. I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me.

Ali Larter

#21. And he likes to torment me, and laughs when I get upset when he does. No, of course not. I do not love Jack Elliot. He is low and coarse and a soldier, and not the kind of man I want to spend my life with.

Nancy E. Turner

#22. When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

Rita Rudner

#23. I want to be the man. I want to do what it takes to win.

Daunte Culpepper

#24. Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I was and being with you in the palace reminds me of the man I want to be.'
'Not just any man,' she whispered. 'A King. Mine.

Melina Marchetta

#25. As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#26. If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.

Brett Dennen

#27. I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was

Martin Luther King Jr.

#28. I can't do this because I can't ... I can't be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this - this just becomes ... another reminder of what I am not.

Jojo Moyes

#29. Everything has changed since I met you. I thought I knew who I was, what I was, but being with you, I've learned about the kind of man I want to be.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#30. I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

Jean Reno

#31. I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.

Angie Stone

#32. If I die of heatstroke, I want to be reincarnated as a beauty queen, I thought. Ma-experience ko man lang na sumakay ng pink na float at hindi maglakad habang nauusukan ng tambutso.

Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla

#33. The last time anyone did anything wrong in this town, Hades's men found those responsible and dragged them back here in chains. You would have to be insane to actively want to piss that man off." "Insane or very sure of yourself," I said.

Steve McHugh

#34. What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?

Jim Brown

#35. So you see, I already have everything I want. And what do you get the man who has everything? Why, you get on your knees.

James Schannep

#36. My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Lance Armstrong

#37. no
it won't
be love at
first sight when
we meet it'll be love
at first remembrance cause
i've seen you in my mother's eyes
when she tells me to marry the type
of man i'd want to raise my son to be like

Rupi Kaur

#38. I want to reach everybody, from the little girls who are 3 years old, to the grandmother who watches my soap, to a young man in love.

Thalia

#39. The next thing I want to say is that God's way is always the best way. It's the only way, really. And God's word clearly says he created sex for one man and one woman to share only inside the commitment of marriage

Robin Jones Gunn

#40. I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it ... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

Mia Farrow

#41. I want you to remember who you are. Remember the man you were when we met? That man. The man that said I'm going to marry that woman.

Lucian Bane

#42. I want to continue to be the same man I've always been.

Jussie Smollett

#43. I love life, man, and I embrace every minute of it so maybe I bring that on the set. I love people and I want to have a good time.

John Leguizamo

#44. Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.

Jamie Foxx

#45. The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.

Sitting Bull

#46. I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#47. That's not what I asked...I don't care about those boys who might've fumbled around between your legs a time or two. I want to know if you've been with a man.

J.M. Darhower

#48. I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#49. If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

William Graham Sumner

#50. I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.

Rachel Hunter

#51. The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

Ethan Hawke

#52. It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

Bode Miller

#53. Right now I just want to play good roles, and if the role happens to be a gay man, that's not of any import other than, 'Is it a good story? Does it say something that's interesting?'

Chris Pine

#54. You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt.
- Howard Roark

Ayn Rand

#55. I'll do whatever you want," Trash said gratefully in the dream. "My life for you! My soul for you!"
"I will set you to burn," the dark man said gravely.

Stephen King

#56. I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.

Baba Amte

#57. I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."

Tony Robbins

#58. I understand more than I want to. People act like love is a gift, but it's not. It's theft. It's a goddamn tragedy. Love is losing a vital organ to a man who will never give his in return.

Skye Warren

#59. I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

Zig Ziglar

#60. If I want a man I'll go to a cheap bar, like any other sane woman. I, for one, haven't hit rock bottom.

Eleanor Prescott

#61. The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#62. If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#63. When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person.

Frank Iero

#64. In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

#65. I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life

Haruki Murakami

#66. I don't want a man around, what use are they except for ten seconds' worth of half babies

Margaret Atwood

#67. I want you to tell me why you have a pair of broken angel wings on your shoulder. I want you to tell me why you cut your wrists and I want to know why and how you play and sing the way you do, but most of all I want you to tell me what I need to do to be a good enough man for you.

Christine Zolendz

#68. I told Chiquita if a man hadn't made a date with her for a Saturday night before Saturday night, he didn't want to be bothered with her on a Saturday night.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#69. Who are you? What do you want?" The black-clad man drew himself up arrogantly. "Once I was called Elan Morin Tedronai, but now - " "Betrayer of Hope.

Robert Jordan

#70. I respect every gay man and woman. They're that way, and they just want to be happy.

Juan Pablo Galavis

#71. Look at me, Sylvia. Because I'm not going to say this again. I told you once that I'm a man who goes after what he wants, and I want you in my bed. I want to feel you naked and hot beneath me. I want to hear you cry out when you come, and I want to know that I am the man who took you there.

Anonymous

#72. I was your man, you were halfway around the world from me, honey, I'd fucking phone you ... If you told me you needed a timeout, first, I wouldn't fuckin' let you have one. Second, I wouldn't give you reason to fuckin' want one. And last, you took off anyway, I'd fuckin' phone.

Kristen Ashley

#73. I earned the right not to compete for a man.
He wants me... Or... She is welcome to him...

Virginia Alison

#74. I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.

Gillian Anderson

#75. I want to be a better man for you and because I love you so much, I actually believe I can be.

Emma Chase

#76. Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

Bei Dao

#77. When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling him Peter Parker because the actual guy's name was also alliterative, and because, well, it's my book and I'll name a guy I dated after Spider-Man's alter ego if I want to.

Mindy Kaling

#78. A man asked Gautama Buddha, "I want happiness."
Buddha said, "First remove "I," that's Ego, then remove "want," that's Desire.
See now you are left with only "Happiness.

Gautama Buddha

#79. I didn't want to sign with A$AP Worldwide at the time because I was going through some personal things and I had to go back home to my mother in Miami. I also just wanted to feel independent as a man.

SpaceGhostPurrp

#80. I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.

Alan Alda

#81. I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

Vincent Van Gogh

#82. I want the President to look across the country and find the best man woman or minority that he can find

Trent Lott

#83. I want to be still and small, and not have to man up or act like everything's okay, but the thing about living in a house where someone is sick is, it's like they have a monopoly on it. If one person is always needing things , then no one else is really allowed to.

Brenna Yovanoff

#84. I want to relearn the intervals, to
journey with a man among the thirds and fifths,
augumented, diminshed, with a light touch,
sforzando, rallentando, agitato, the usual
adores and dotes - and of course what I reaaly
want is some low notes.

Sharon Olds

#85. It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

R.L. Stine

#86. Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in the mud is no god I want to have any part of. It's some kind of gnostic demon. It's some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected.

Terence McKenna

#87. I forewarn you, this will be a rather long talk. I am an old man. I do not know how much longer I will live, and so I want to say what I have to say, while I have the strength to say it ... Having been warned, some of you will wish to get comfortable. Pleasant dreams.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#88. Being a leading man ... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.

Steve Carell

#89. I am entirely well," said Eldric, "which has Dr. Rannigan exploring first one theory, then another, trying to understand. But not being a man of science, I don't care about understanding. I simply want to go outside and break a few windows.

Franny Billingsley

#90. I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

Jared Taylor

#91. Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them.

Gregory Harrison

#92. I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

Bruce Kent

#93. Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.

Ozzy Osbourne

#94. Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, 'You're disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.' But women, we're supposed to be like, 'He messed up. He made a mistake.'

Adrienne Bailon

#95. President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.

Will Rogers

#96. I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.

Common

#97. I go by Ambrosius, Wild Man of the Woods, and Son of the Devil. Call me what you want, but I am Merlin." - Merlin

Ben Zackheim

#98. I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'

Ralph Brown

#99. In short, between men and women you want ... "
"Equality."
"Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures."
"I said equality. I didn't say identity.

Victor Hugo

#100. I don't want a man who will look after me - I can do that for myself. I want a man that can break me apart.

Logan Patricks