Top 100 Not Want Quotes
#1. -I do not want to die
- Then you should not have been born (Sita)
Last Vampire
Christopher Pike
#2. The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.
Peter Hall
#4. Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
George Orwell
#5. This is the dilemma, the contradiction we cannot resolve. We do not want to be them. Yet we are fascinated by them, because every detail tugs at a buried memory.
Kelley Armstrong
#6. I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.
Tom Hanks
#7. Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.
Susanna Kaysen
#8. A student who does not want to learn is like an empty cup that does not want to be filled.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#9. My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity ... and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself.
Robert A. Heinlein
#10. I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.
Lindsey Graham
#11. If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nations mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nations needs.
Jan Smuts
#12. You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you.
-Leona Montgomery
Madeline Hunter
#13. And yet in her eyes there was something unreadable, something that did not want to be read, the determined blankness that in predator animals conceals hostile calculation and in prey forms part of an overwhelming effort to seem to have disappeared.
Michael Chabon
#14. There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them.
Robert Ringer
#15. For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.
Martin Luther
#16. I used to not want to call them shrinks, but now that I've been through so many, I feel entitled to it. It's an adult term, and it's disrespectful, and I'm more than two thirds adult and I'm pretty disrespectful, so what the hell.
Ned Vizzini
#17. I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.
Ernest Hemingway,
#18. There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
Sally Field
#19. I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. It is not that I do not want you. Only that I might want you too much. And for too long
Samantha Shannon
#21. I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it's on the floor next to the bed, although not actually in bed with me, because I really do not want to be the person who sleeps with their phone.
Jami Attenberg
#22. For the Christian man to reason that God does not want him involved in politics because there are too many evil men in government is as insensitive as for a Christian doctor to turn his back on an epidemic because there are too many germs there.
Mark Hatfield
#23. I really do not want to carry some kind of party function.
Dalai Lama
#24. He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.
Albert Camus
#26. Prayer is about real-world concerns, spoken in real-world language. God does not want us to shift into a stained-glass prayer voice to address Him.
David Jeremiah
#27. I do not want to just read books; I want to crawl inside them and live there.
Anonymous
#28. Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French ... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
Pat Robertson
#29. I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.
Roger Bannister
#30. I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.
Armand Assante
#31. My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out smoke. Like a volcano. Like a monster. I want to fume. I do not want to be the girl whose job it is to wail in a high-pitched voice at funerals.
Deborah Levy
#32. The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No, we don't. And if that's his answer, then he won't have anything to do with any of the politicians. Because they all want to land us in hell.
Aldous Huxley
#33. Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.
T.H. White
#34. She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.
Virginia Woolf
#35. I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#36. Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.
John Redwood
#37. I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.
Matthew Quick
#38. I will never not want you, understand? I love you. I adore you. I admire you. I desire you. You are my heart. My blood, my bones. My everything.
Sarah Mayberry
#39. If you do not want me to break your wrist with one squeeze of my hand, you will do two things immediately, First you will remove your hand from my woman's purse. Second, you will remove your hand from my shirt. It's attached to the body that belongs to the owner of the purse.
Jen Frederick
#40. The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Herbert Hoover
#41. September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That's how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you're tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit.
Catherynne M Valente
#42. People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.
Cary Cooper
#43. Sometimes we're caught off guard and asked to do something we may not want to do, something outside our comfort zone - a favor, a challenge. We could be mocked or ridiculed. Or maybe we'll doubt ourselves, but we can't let fear rule. Sometimes in life, we have to dance.
Jake Byrne
#44. I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
Harri Holkeri
#45. All he cares about here on the edge of forever, is her. He does not want to die. Not because he is afraid. Simply because he cannot bear the thought of leaving her behind.
Amie Kaufman
#46. I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.
Helen Keller
#47. Although I have no fish, / I do not want any frog; / Or any elderberries either, / Instead of a bunch of grapes: / Although I have no love, / I do not want anything else, / Whether Love is gracious to me or hostile.
Hadewijch
#48. I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'
Robert M. Pirsig
#49. This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further use. A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want? On
Margaret Atwood
#50. I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.
Tom Hanks
#51. The Lord is my shepherd. I do not want. He makes me to lie down in plenty, in fullness. I am satisfied with Him.
Anonymous
#52. I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
Jonathan Sacks
#53. Time had passed, yet her heart held onto him. She did not draw breath without thinking of him. She did not dream without feeling his presence at her side. His voice, in memory, was sweeter than any she'd heard. And she did not want to be without him.
Sasha Summers
#54. I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Martha Graham
#55. I did not want to quarrel with her, although I thought her both presumptuous and rude.
George MacDonald
#56. Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.
Laozi
#57. Do not despise the small but significant symbolic act. God probably does not want you to reorganize the entire discipline or the entire world of your vocation overnight. Learn to be symbol-makers and story-tellers for the kingdom of God.
N. T. Wright
#58. He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood.
Ayn Rand
#59. Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.
Oswald Chambers
#60. I would not want to live in a world drained of all religious feeling. I am not thinking of faith but of that inner vibration, which, independent of any belief in particular, projects you into and sometimes above God.
Emil Cioran
#61. You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.
Tabitha Suzuma
#62. I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.
Elsa Barker
#63. Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.
Gordon Brown
#64. Maia did not want to wake up. Sleep lay on her like a dead bear and she had no strength to struggle out from under it.
Kim McDougall
#65. I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for her, the underside of love.
Philip Roth
#66. And though many women might enjoy the offering of such compliments, I did not want him to love me based on temporal things like a smile or voice or presence, things that could vanish through mood or an unexpected cloud. He must love me for the sake of love alone ...
Nancy Moser
#67. That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.
Nina Simone
#68. Instead of trying so hard to avoid what you do not want to become in your life, focus on who you are and who you are becoming.
Alex Blackwell
#69. Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-"sharpened and unusually creative thinking" and "increased productivity"?
Kay Redfield Jamison
#70. We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
Joseph Stalin
#71. Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#72. Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings, or anybody at all, destroy your confidence or affect your growth as a blooming flower. It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.
Suzy Kassem
#73. There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#74. My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#75. I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.
Lincoln Steffens
#77. Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Michelangelo
#79. I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.
Rod Blagojevich
#80. Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.
Epictetus
#81. He knew vaguely that he did not want the nurse to die at that moment, even though it was certainly its right and possibly its obligation to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein
#82. A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile
to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#83. Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.
Alison Mosshart
#84. Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.
Rudolf Bultmann
#85. I'm probably the only person over 40 who does not want to be 22 again.
Monica Lewinsky
#86. I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores.
Jeff Miller
#87. God enjoys drinking wine. He does not want the wine made from grapes, but the wine made from Christ's saturating us. God is not interested in grapes - He is interested in you with Christ. We must become wine through the experience of Christ.
Witness Lee
#88. If you did not want much, there was plenty.
Harper Lee
#89. If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.
Cornelia Funke
#90. Jesus does not want us floating through space or sitting in front of our televisions. Jesus wants us interacting, eating together, laughing together, praying together. Loneliness is something that came with the fall.
Donald Miller
#91. Don't you dare scream. I do not want to end up as tonight's gossip. But I do want to end up with some part of me inside you.
Ella Frank
#92. The voices in my head does not likes attitude of some people. I know how to defend myself, but I do not want to hurt their feelings for ease my pain.
Sammy Toora Powerlifter
#93. I've already proved myself today. I do not want to be greedy; I do not want to be like Eric, terrified of other people's strength.
Veronica Roth
#94. He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.
Cassandra Clare
#95. If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#96. I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote community, I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.
Rory Stewart
#97. I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.
Arj Barker
#98. A Mother always absorbs the suffering of her child. Even if she does not want to do that.
Pet Torres
#99. What you'll learn, Simon, is that people do not want to know the truth. You might think you are doing them a great favour to bring it to them. But even if you put it right on their doorstep, nobody will thank you for it. They'll throw it away. Throw it in your face. Most people prefer to forget.
Anna Smaill
#100. Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.
Pythagoras
