Quotes About Wants

#1. So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter the light of the truth of our being, and aided by that light to find the right path. Mary

Pope Benedict XVI

#2. The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs.

Joyce Meyer

#3. God wants to use His Church to establish His Kingdom on the earth.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

Nora Ephron

#5. We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

Ronald Reagan

#6. Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism.

Grover Norquist

#7. There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

Mario Batali

#8. In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour laws and social conventions.

Percy Barnevik

#10. You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to read about his trip, not yours.' Whereas I say, the reader just wants to read a good story and to maybe learn something.

Tim Cahill

#11. The audience wants control. They want freedom.

Kevin Spacey

#12. I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.

Linda Evangelista

#13. Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.

Kate O'Mara

#15. Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

Pat Robertson

#16. My wife wants something foreign for Christmas - like a Mexican divorce.

Milton Berle

#17. This is working out pretty well, all things considered. My giddy side wants to giggle, but I choke it down. Later for the girlishness.

Eoin Colfer

#18. Gianfranco Chicco, a serial conference organizer who has curated numerous innovation and technology events in Europe, is even more romantic in his ambitions. He told me he wants to host a "conference for two" one day. It is sure to be the most exclusive conference ticket on the market.

Tim Leberecht

#19. We are on parallel paths with the planet. The wants and needs of marine wildlife are our own: we want connection, companionship, a healthy clean environment.

Adrian Grenier

#20. Never choose the card a man wants you to. Mat should have realized that. It was one of the oldest cons in creation.

Robert Jordan

#21. Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

W. Somerset Maugham

#22. A little blue-eyed blonde in a red hot sweater, wants to spice my chili, I think I'll let her.

Toby Keith

#23. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out - but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. [ 1 John 2:17 MSG

Max Lucado

#24. No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.

Moby

#25. I'm one of those people who really wants to do everything. And if I had enough time, I really would.

Anna Popplewell

#26. It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

Alan Alda

#27. I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I'm gaining weight, I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.

George Jones

#28. The thing about magic is everyone wants to own some, most so badly they're willing to beg and borrow and steal it from whomever they can. But the truth is unless you own your own magic you'll be destroyed by it; whether you lend its power to others or use what isn't yours doesn't matter.

Tiffany FitzHenry

#29. If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.

Derek R. Audette

#30. I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.

Lex Luger

#31. It's not his body
that changes
right away.
it's something
inside. he says
he wants to
be a little
weaker. i don't
understand.
i say 'thinner?'
and he says
'no, i want
to be stronger
in a different
way.' not
because of me,
but for me.

David Levithan

#32. Who's the guy?" Ty interrupted my thoughts. "The blond dude with the mini me on top of him. He wants in your pants. I don't think I like it.

Claudia Y. Burgoa

#33. God is bigger than our sins. God wants you as you are - stumbling, sinning, confused.

Sierra Simone

#34. No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

Paul Gauguin

#35. She knows, every part of her knows, that she wants to kiss him. That he wants to kiss her. All of her skin prickles with longing. Her insides fizz. (The Lady and the Fox)

Kelly Link

#36. It will not suffer if it doesn't get what it wants.

Jaron Lanier

#37. Everyone know of him. Some people hate him because they think he's weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants. Some people worship him because he's weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants.

Jennifer Niven

#38. 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

#39. The heart feels what the heart wants to feel.

Kelly Elliott

#40. I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.

Debi Mazar

#41. No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society.

Jeffrey Tucker

#42. If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

Joe DiMaggio

#43. Keep your head up and smile, because someone somewhere wants to see you fail.

Burnell Taylor

#44. I don't know . . . there's just something about him. You radiate joy and sunshine, and he seems like more of a wet blanket who wants all the attention for himself. Everyone loves you here. I'm just looking out for you," she shares apologetically as she comfortingly cups Julie's hand.

Sheri Fink

#45. What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts ...

Anton Webern

#46. He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.

Bill Scott

#47. Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

Carl Jung

#48. President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished.

Jay Leno

#49. Technology moves so fast and social media moves so fast because everyone wants the new thing, but also, everyone wants to be where their parents are not. Once the mom got a Facebook and a Twitter and an Instagram, I don't want to be there anymore.

Ansel Elgort

#50. You're not the kind of girl a guy wants to be friends with, you're the kind of girl he wants to give his heart to.

Tess Oliver

#51. I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.

Dusty Baker

#52. Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

Therese De Lisieux

#53. It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#54. It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

Bob Iger

#55. An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#56. But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you.

James Jones

#57. If you believe in resurrection, you believe that the living God will put his world to rights and that if God wants to do that in the future, it is right to try to anticipate that by whatever means in the present.

N. T. Wright

#58. Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

Rick Warren

#59. Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.

Bernard Cornwell

#60. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.

Max Barry

#61. It's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, and hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. And one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl!

Bruno Mars

#62. So many wants distract man from his divine purpose.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#63. All things want to open. You must feel
that need, and use it ...
And then, suddenly, she understands, and,
somewhere in her heart, she lets it be what it wants to be ... and it opens.

Neil Gaiman

#64. It's for sure that nobody wants to be played from somebody out son logically bets are something from paradox world.

Paradox is now the comming future, so get prepared.

Deyth Banger

#65. If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

Charles Kettering

#66. My mind wants to interpret
All my dreams.
My heart wants to love
All my dreams.
My soul wants to fulfil
All my dreams.

Sri Chinmoy

#67. We must remember in our struggles that our duty lies outside of trying to understand God's plan. He never asks that of us. Instead, He wants to see our trust in Him, through simple daily obedience, even in a land of affliction and confusion.

Wayne Stiles

#68. He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.

Juvenal

#69. When I was in my early twenties I didn't have a need to rub together, back when my life was a series of wants and whims. But recently I had felt overwhelmed by longings that seemed to lunge out of me in the most awkward situations.

Tyne O'Connell

#70. Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.

Israelmore Ayivor

#71. It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to ... immigrate, you could say.

Catherynne M Valente

#72. The man is angry, the man
Is destructive, the man wants more.
The woman is more, the woman is all.

James Franco

#73. to buy us.' 'The candidate wants to get here fast,' Mike was saying. 'Too fast,

Daniel Pembrey

#74. I want to find my way to where you are-you, the Kumiko who wants me to rescue her ... I wanted to let you know that. I'm getting closer to where you are, and I intend to get closer still.

Haruki Murakami

#75. Why in the hell is she still taking off my clothes? Oh, my God! Maggie wants to rape me! I slap at her hand and she grips my wrist. "Sydney!" She laughs. "You're covered in puke. I'm trying to help you.

Colleen Hoover

#76. The difference between a story and an essay is that the storyteller just wants to entertain the reader, while the essayist has been to graduate school.

Dinty W. Moore

#77. Figure out what your opponent wants you to do and try to do the opposite.

Lou Krieger

#78. The Story Core Every compelling story has the following five elements: 1) A character 2) The character wants something 3) But something prevents him from getting what he wants easily 4) So he struggles against that force 5) And either succeeds or fails

Libbie Hawker

#79. Suffering is primarily a
call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than
happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#80. Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Robin G. Collingwood

#81. God wants us to perform good deeds--to repair what's broken, to make things better in the world.

Carla Jablonski

#82. All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?

Janis Joplin

#83. I appreciate every team that wants me, and I take on every challenge.

Tyson Chandler

#84. The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

Matt Chandler

#85. It was amazing the things you could bring yourself to do when you felt insecure, when you were out to protect your heart. You could deny it what it wants most, just for the sake of saving your pride or dodging another bullet.

Rachael Wade

#86. No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

Nick Nolte

#87. But you have so much in common. You're both from strange little backwater planets. You both have odd powers. You're male and she's female. What more do you need? Believe me, buddy, if I were you, I'd go right up there and ask her if she wants to ride on my rancor.

Dave Wolverton

#88. The things a man will wish for are harder to leave behind than all his wants ...

Louis L'Amour

#89. Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.

Bryant McGill

#90. Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.

P.G. Wodehouse

#91. I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.

George Raft

#92. Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

H.W. Brands

#93. If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be introduced to the dangerous, with the fearfulness that they contain. One is not possible without the other.

Rudolf Steiner

#94. I make myself rich by making my wants few.

Henry David Thoreau

#95. The worst of me wants credit for intending to do right by Jermaine, and has no intentions of disrupting my life for the needs of a cousin I always looked up to.

Kiese Laymon

#96. He feels excited. He feels ashamed. He wants to talk to her, but he is afraid. Maybe he imagined it all. Maybe she will call him a bad name if he asks her what happened.

Naomi Alderman

#97. Everybody who I play always wants to use me, so I always tell them that I'm the only one who knows how to stop Portis, so go ahead.

Clinton Portis

#98. When things in your life do not make sense, keep on praying. Ask God what He wants you to do, and let Him heal you on the inside. He understands that you and I are not perfect. We are works in progress, but we should let Him work within us.

Nick Vujicic

#99. It's scary when it's real. When it's not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants.

Jenny Han

#100. There is a serious discrepancy between what we really wants, and what we usually do to get what we think we want. What we really want is to fill the hole inside and become complete, and what we do is look for success and growth outside.

Ilchi Lee