Quotes About Wanting

#1. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before. This kiss was so soft that it was like a memory of a kiss, so careful on my lips that it was like someone running his fingers along them.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. ...age sixty-eight and still wanting love to exist in a pure column of light, still convinced that it could.

Meg Wolitzer

#3. A man and a woman wanting each other is by far one of the least sinful things I've seen

Sierra Simone

#4. The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

Garry Shandling

#5. that's when I realized that popularity is a big bunch of bullshit. Recognizing that popularity is sometimes the equivalent of human mange sort of cured me from wanting it.

Jenny Lawson

#6. You've seen, like, movies. Of kisses, right? Your lips need to be, like, wanting to be kissed."
Blue touched her mouth. "What are they doing now?"
"Like, bracing themselves.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. There is a part of me that is desperately wanting to not necessarily be this cute, endearing, heart-on-his-sleeve type of character that just wants to be liked.

Colin Hanks

#8. Well, well. What have we here? (Thief #1)
Looks like we got some little pigeons just right for a plucking. (Thief #2)
Well, well. What have we here? (Sin)
Looks like a pack of fools wanting to die. (Braden)

Kinley MacGregor

#9. But above all, marriage is about wanting to share your life with someone you really, truly love but staying with your spouse instead, no matter how much they irritate and ignore you.

Mrs. Stephen Fry

#10. I can't tell if I should be ashamed of wanting to hold you on this day, or grateful that, despite what happened before now, it somehow brought me to you.

Sarah J. Maas

#11. As Germaine Greer puts it in The Whole Woman, to become a mother without wanting it is to live like a slave, or domestic animal.

Caitlin Moran

#12. November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.

Axl Rose

#13. Once you get away from wanting to get paid, you can actually say some true things.

Roseanne Barr

#14. You are a beautiful lady. I won't deny that. But there's a difference between admiring a painting and wanting to buy it.

Jaima Fixsen

#15. I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it.

Zach Galifianakis

#16. I'm still scared, still wanting to run at times when I look into your eyes and wonder how I will ever be the sort of man you deserve. I want so much to deserve you. To be worthy of a woman like you.

Charlotte Featherstone

#17. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

John Locke

#18. Because way back before you were even born there was this girl you see. And I fell in love with her. It was something that I wanted-love-not because it was expected of me, but because I found it out my self-that happiness of wanting to be with that other person.

Marianne Wiggins

#19. The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.

Joanna Hoffman

#20. No, probably not. But only because I can't imagine ever wanting to be with anyone else ever again.

T. Torrest

#21. You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the show, you can see some of them wanting to know what makes him tick. And I guess that translates into some of the fans outside. You know?

Matt Robinson

#22. Divine Providence is never wanting in things undertaken at Its command. Even though the whole world should rise up and destroy us, nothing could happen but what is pleasing to God. The less there is of man in affairs, the more there is of God.

Vincent De Paul

#23. I don't know everything; is the first statement of wanting to know

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

#24. As we talked I thought about him being gone. I thought about washing my sheets. I thought about the likelihood of him wanting to see me again. Mostly I thought about organizing my books alphabetically and dancing by myself to George Harrison songs.

Kendra Grant Malone

#25. I feel like with actors wanting to direct, you really only have a shot or two. You can't just make a bunch of little independent movies, and then finally one gets noticed. You have to make a really good one right away.

Neil Patrick Harris

#26. I'm the youngest of four, and I'm always the clown - making the jokes, wanting attention.

Rose Byrne

#27. Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.

Pope John Paul II

#28. It's better to leave them wanting more than to be the show where people are like, "Oh, that's still on the air?"

Robbie Amell

#29. Then, I will be a real Italian girl, instead of a total American who still can't hear someone across the street to his friend Marco without wanting instinctively to yell back Polo!

Elizabeth Gilbert

#30. Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

Mary Astell

#31. I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.

Jamie Ford

#32. For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

Jamie Lee Curtis

#33. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.

Gioconda Belli

#34. The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.

Pharrell Williams

#35. She was a greedy thing sometimes. Wanting for herself. Twisting the world all out of proper shape. Pushing everything about with the weight of her desire.

Patrick Rothfuss

#36. Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

Saint Augustine

#37. Dare to change the world
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubborness that defies chaos and disillusionment.

Gioconda Belli

#38. To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.

Jack Kornfield

#39. I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.

Anna Paquin

#40. I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'

Domhnall Gleeson

#41. If you're wanting something salty, do air-popped popcorn. That, to me, would be a healthier choice than having any kind of fried chip.

Bob Harper

#42. I mean, not wanting to be flip about it, but even within a corporation, you get sort of cult-like behaviors sometimes.

Jane Poynter

#43. It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.

Vince Gilligan

#44. Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.

Steve Guttenberg

#45. We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.

Thomm Quackenbush

#46. Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That's more detrimental.

Dick Powell

#47. I remember, as a young man, wanting to experience a car going at those speeds and being visually nourished by something which I loved so much. And I wanted to race fast cars and have a good time.

Dominic Cooper

#48. She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.

Colum McCann

#49. Adam felt the familiar pang. Not jealousy, just wanting. One day, he'd have enough money to have a place like this. A place that looked on the outside like Adam looked on the inside.

Maggie Stiefvater

#50. Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.

Richard Morris

#51. You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Keith Sweat

#52. Everybody knows I got a temper. It's not a temper temper-not an off-the-field temper. It's a competitive temper, wanting to do good. But as far as being a guy who disrupts a lot of things, who doesn't want to listen? Nah, man. That's false. That's false because I'm excelling.

Randy Moss

#53. Indeed that is what our lives are, a project of recovery and restitution; or we have to ironize our always wanting to get something back that we never had and that never existed anyway

Adam Phillips

#54. You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

Angela Davis

#55. Malachi was hot and cold, wanting her when it was convenient for him. He

Nako

#56. For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

Breckin Meyer

#57. There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time. I'm a liberal, and I'm proud of it. In fact, I was probably a little more liberal than Hubert was. I just wanted to say that.

Muriel Humphrey

#58. You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.

Henry Rollins

#59. Music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything. For years I was so closed, wanting to do it exactly like I had it in my head, because this would be the only place that was superpersonal.

Lou Doillon

#60. My mother's hand strokes my cheek and I don't push it away as I would in wakefulness, never wanting her to know how much I crave that gentle touch. How much I miss her even though I still don't trust her.

Suzanne Collins

#61. Wanting to message a friend and knowing that you can get around the consequences...

Unknown

#62. Billie laughed at that, full and throaty, and once again she became so incandescently beautiful that George was half-tempted to throw a blanket over her, just to stop anyone else from wanting her.

Julia Quinn

#63. Though strength be wanting, the will to action
Merits praise.

Ovid

#64. They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#65. I was a very wanting child.

Loretta Young

#66. We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.

Stevie Wonder

#67. Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?

Alfred De Vigny

#68. Everyone is capable of hate, of wanting to hurt, even kill another person. But when those hatreds manifest themselves out of the mind and into real life, a line is crossed. The line between human and animal.

Kate Kerrigan

#69. There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.

Bear Bryant

#70. And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

David Benioff

#71. I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

Jennifer Aniston

#72. People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition.

Jessica Ennis

#73. Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.

Wim Wenders

#74. Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.

Susan Faludi

#75. Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting. It's being tried, found difficult and rejected!

Leonard Ravenhill

#76. In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#77. Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.

Desmond Tutu

#78. The arrogance of wanting to be loved had emerged only now it was unreciprocated - I was left alone with my desire, defenseless, beyond the law, shockingly crude in my demands: Love me! And for what reason? I had only the usual paltry, insufficient excuse: Because I love you . .

Alain De Botton

#79. When a mother dies, a daughter grieves. And then her life moves on. She does, thankfully, feel happiness again. But the missing her, the wanting her, the wishing she were still here - I will not lie to you, although you probably already know. That part never ends.

Hope Edelman

#80. I can't even remember not wanting to go to film school.

Danny McBride

#81. Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly that you end up destroying it.

Andrew Smith

#82. Yeah." He hesitated, as if not wanting to push. "I'd love to have a few days with you before school starts. Here or back on campus or wherever." "I'd like that," I said, with as much of a casual attitude as I could muster, but inside it was all Wagnerian opera.

Eli Easton

#83. And thinking it made her
want to cry, because she knew it was true.
And wanting to cry just made her angry. Because if she was going to cry about
something, it was going to be the fact that her life was complete shit - not because some cool, cute guy didn't like her like that.

Rainbow Rowell

#84. I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities at 18, and I think that was mainly because web developing and management was a really young industry.

Matt Mickiewicz

#85. They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality.

Barney Frank

#86. I'm a walker. I enjoy walking, which I think psychologically expresses my feelings of wanting liberation without exerting myself too much.

Janeane Garofalo

#87. Who can play without wanting to succeed even with a sentimentally gain?

Sorin Cerin

#88. What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.

Julian Barnes

#89. I'm indifferent and it's a matter of wanting to stay away from the whole Michael Vick situation, whether he is involved or not. I'm not saying anything about dogfighting or anyone who might be involved in it.

Jonathan Vilma

#90. I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

Kat Dennings

#91. Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

Danger Mouse

#92. When we'd started working together, I'd assumed it would be a question of putting up with Pritkin; then suddenly the stupid hair was making me smile, and the sporadic heroics were making my heart jump and the constant bitching had me wanting to kiss him quiet.

Karen Chance

#93. Oh, that feeling of hopeless grief and just wanting the pain to stop.

Liane Moriarty

#94. To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

Angelina Jolie

#95. No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write.

Lydia Rodriguez-Clement

#96. Don't allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportunities that will change your life. Expect these things - work for them and don't ever stop until they're yours.

Jennifer Elisabeth

#97. I didn't start out angry. I started out a young man wanting adventure.

Andrew Vachss

#98. I'll never stop wanting to kiss you, he whispered.

Elizabeth Chandler

#99. There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

Robert Breault

#100. Having a social appetite for knowledge and wanting to develop and improve as a coach is important, but I believe in empowering people, particularly the other coaches that work with the team, giving them ownership and responsibility.

Warren Gatland