Quotes About Things We Want

#1. There are objects you may desire but cannot explain. There are objects that are not nouns, there are actions that are not verbs. There are things we want that exist at the edge of the forest, at the rim of the ocean, just over the hill, just out of sight.

Charles Yu

#2. If there was one thing I knew, it was that our demons were what shaped who we were. The things we do, the way we act, are all driven by the things we want locked away forever.

Barbara C. Doyle

#3. Once the habit is in place, we can effortlessly do the things we want to do.

Gretchen Rubin

#4. Sometimes the things we want to say the most are the things that should never be said.

Megan Hart

#5. We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

Calvin Coolidge

#6. Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Sherrie Eldridge

#7. Sometimes the things we want to be rescued from can save us.

Amy Harmon

#8. In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

Erich Hoeber

#9. Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Steven Pinker

#10. We work hard for the things we want, we compromise, we amend, we persevere, we stay believing, we show commitment. We strive! Later we will see the results

Tshepang Sharon Koji

#11. Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.

Emily Giffin

#12. I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

Donald Miller

#13. One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than good. People don't need our words. They mainly need our presence, they need our love. And if you come in too quickly with explanations, you may do more harm than good.

Philip Yancey

#14. Everyone knows that hidden pull is there, but we go on living our lives, pretending we don't. We keep our gazes fixed, day after day, on the things we want to see.

Banana Yoshimoto

#15. Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.

Lillian Hellman

#16. Rick Perry I have a great fondness for. And what Rick Perry has, like Jeb Bush has, it will be interesting to compare their two records as governor, very close, great economic development, low taxes, all the things we want domestically out of a president.

Rudy Giuliani

#17. Two things we want so desperately, glory and relationship, can coexist only in God.

Timothy Keller

#18. As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals themselves.

Matthew Scully

#19. Children want the same things we want.
To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

Dr. Seuss

#20. At Yale we don't just want to make new things, we want to make things better.

Peter Salovey

#21. the older we get, the more we do things that we have to and the less we do things we want. He

Emily Krat

#22. For the things we want to do, we make time. For the things we don't want to do, we make excuses.

Jennifer Dahl

#23. Dreams are the blueprints to the things we want. They never come to life if we don't put in the work to make them happen. Nothing you really want just falls into your lap. The obstacles in the way to realizing your dream tend to fall out of nowhere. Nobody wants those.

Bethany Bazile

#24. What makes us threaten the things we want most?

Jim Shepard

#25. Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend ... or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

Marcus Aurelius

#26. Sometimes, we can't do the things we want to do for ourselves. Sometimes we wait for someone else to do them. You can't always wait like that. You have to seek out change on your own.

Sara Wolf

#27. We all have dreams; things we want to achieve, to have or to own, to be or to see.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#28. Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want.

Siri Hustvedt

#29. Having your cake and eating it too is how Life was meant to be. Everything is possible. And the things we want the most are not only possible, they're highly probable.

Debbianne DeRose

#30. The things we want are transformative, and we don't know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation Never to get lost is not to live.

Rebecca Solnit

#31. It would be nice if life weren't so messy, but that's just not the nature of things; we want things to be perfect, but most of the time we just spend our existence cleaning up the messes we make - and sometimes the messes of other people, people about whom we care most in the world.

Craig Johnson

#32. Sometimes the things we want the most are bad for us - really bad for us - but sometimes what's bad for us sets us free.

Krystal McLean

#33. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

Neal Shusterman

#34. All of us want the same things. We want to be good to the people around us and for our lives to have meaning. For me that means making the world a little bit easier for women.

Sheryl Sandberg

#35. It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

Isabel Allende

#36. Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.

Shunryu Suzuki

#37. It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Agnes Repplier

#38. Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God's will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

Bryan Chapell

#39. There is a wonderful, almost mystical, law of nature that says three of the things we want most - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained when we give them to others.

John Wooden

#40. There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

Paul McCartney

#41. In a new country, it helps to remember the things that were good once, the things we want to recreate now.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#42. I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.

Nadine Gordimer

#43. Soon you'll be ashes, or bones. A mere name, at most - and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, and trivial. Dogs snarling at each other. Quarreling children - laughing and then bursting into tears a moment later.

Anonymous

#44. I think the president can set a tone and say we're not divided by gender, age, race. We're all Americans and want the same things. We want the best things for our kids. We want the rules to be fair. If they work hard, get a great education, they should be able to join the middle class.

Bobby Jindal

#45. You know, we spend so much of our lives not saying the things we want to say. The things we should say. We speak in code, we send little messages. Origami. So now, plainly, simply. I want to say that I love you both.

Michael Scofield

#46. You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job.

Dennis Hastert

#47. A lot of us spend our lives assuming we are going to get around to those things we want to do.

Sean Patrick Maloney

#48. There you have the definition of being human: we don't want new things, we want things that feel new.

James Marquess

#49. A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

John Tesh

#50. Sometimes the best things for us aren't necessarily the things we want.

Sara Farizan

#51. There are things we want, and things we may have ... Sanity lies in knowing the difference.

Karen Chance

#52. And that's the tricky thing about life, really, that the things we want most will kill us.

Donald Miller

#53. Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.

Chuck Norris

#54. Don't think of the Internet as a broadcast medium ... think of it as a conversational space. Conversation is the opposite of marketing. It's talking in our own voices about things we want to hear about.

David Weinberger

#55. As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Brene Brown

#56. One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.

C. Everett Koop

#57. Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#58. Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

Margaret Atwood

#59. What do we want most for our children? What's most important in the grand scheme of things? We want them to grow up and be happy.

Adele Devine

#60. Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life."
Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Donald Miller

#61. Grace was my best friend. I can't let anyone forget her. I'm sure you understand."
Mr. Farrow smiled, but the smile didn't quite reach his eyes. "Of course, it's easy to rewrite history when we lose a loved one, isn't it? Sometimes we only remember the things we want to remember.

Lisa Roecker

#62. Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#63. We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.

Thomas Wolfe

#64. And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.

Joan Collins

#65. We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

Paul Prudhomme

#66. Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.

LZ Granderson

#67. Sounds to me like you're praying Violet, not wishing. When we wish, it's usually for something frivolous...Something not serious. Like what you want for your birthday. Prayers are for more serious things." -Mom

Brenda Woods

#68. Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.

Joseph Goebbels

#69. We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

John Fowles

#70. I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.

Denzel Washington

#71. There's pressure to deliver as good of a movie with a little bit more of a budget, and that to me ... to me the hardest thing always is, I just want to deliver a good movie no matter what the budget is and no matter where we shoot it or any of those things.

Neal H. Moritz

#72. In this method, you don't ask, What do I want from life? You ask a different set of questions: What does life want from me? What are my circumstances calling me to do? In this scheme of things we don't create our lives; we are summoned by life.

David Brooks

#73. Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It's like voodoo; we don't want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. I adore life, and I'm very easygoing - and it shows in my work.

Christian Louboutin

#74. But we want young men. Romance. Love and things, I said, despondently.

Edna O'Brien

#75. You want to marry me?" Xavier asked, and I saw some faces turn toward u in curiosity. "I was thinking we'd start slow and see where things went, but hey, what the hell!

Alexandra Adornetto

#76. We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

Afrika Bambaataa

#77. I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with.

John Hawkes

#78. I tell them that if compulsive eating is anything, it's a way we leave ourselves when life gets hard. When we don't want to notice what is going on. Compulsive eating is a way we distance ourselves from the way things are when they are not how we want them to be.

Geneen Roth

#79. Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.

Rae Armantrout

#80. None of us, she thought, wants the world we know to come to an end; we do not want familiar things to be taken from us.

Alexander McCall Smith

#81. We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.

Robin Sharma

#82. I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.

Debra Winger

#83. Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.

Adam Pally

#84. We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.

Dorothy Fields

#85. What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

George C. Marshall

#86. If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life.

Shreya Ghoshal

#87. We so much want social connection that we become afraid to say something that might make another person reject us. And yet, being vulnerable and having empathy are the most connecting things we can practice.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#88. To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.

Bill Crawford

#89. Incredible things can be done simply because we are committed that we want it to happen, that's all.

Jaggi Vasudev

#90. There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

Tara Brach

#91. I don't believe that relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing, say the right, and behave the same way or the way we always want to behave.

Jack Nicholson

#92. We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once.

Dexter Palmer

#93. Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we know better than to always trust it, we still watch.

Robert Redford

#94. It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.

Vik Muniz

#95. Here in the Motor City, we take an almost perverse pride in doing things the hard way, or whatever way that means we can be left alone to do our thing however we want.

Anna Clark

#96. I think maybe it's the things we don't want to talk about that are the things people most want to hear.

Julie Murphy

#97. I wouldn't say that we're proactively out there hunting down brands to try to fulfill some piece of a larger battle plan or something. If they have things they want to get to us, we're somewhat easily accessible through our managers and record companies.

Lars Ulrich

#98. You want to leave something; you really do. I mean, in the end, statues and all those things, that doesn't mean anything. Leave something that we're all going to benefit from. I think that's what I'd like to do.

George Foreman

#99. I'll give you what you want, Sloane," he said. "What we both want. But think long and hard before you come to me. There are things that I like. Things that I want and expect from the woman in my bed. And I don't play by anyone's rules but my own.

J. Kenner

#100. I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

Ann Patchett