Top 100 Quotes About Wants
#1. Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
Simone Weil
#2. The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
N. T. Wright
#3. There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.
Ellen Bass
#4. You can be a nice guy that wants to kill himself.
Oliver Sykes
#5. He stares at me steadily, for a long moment before looking away, but I read his eyes clearly. He wants me tonight. And from what my eyes were saying back to him, I think I just said yes.
Samantha Towle
#6. I wasn't ever going to play Carnegie Hall, or arenas with the E Street Band, but I did still play - plenty - and had work I liked and was good at. If a man or woman wants more, I often told myself, that man or woman is tempting the gods.
Stephen King
#7. If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work ... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.
Eric Maisel
#8. I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.
Abbey Curran
#9. Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much cholesterol and triglycerides ... A collector is someone who is ready to devour the work of art that he wants to possess at all costs.
Augusto De Luca
#10. He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to be over.
Jasmine Warga
#11. Every single model wants to be in 'Sports Illustrated,' and I feel extremely blessed to have that opportunity.
Katherine Webb
#12. If someone wants to make a joke about me smoking too much pot, I'm not going to get mad at them, because I've put it out there that that's what I do.
Doug Benson
#13. You can't just pillory the teachers unions and sound the free market trumpet. We must visit the failing schools. We must talk to the mother who desperately wants more for her child and offer a constructive way out. We can't simply lambaste ... food stamps or decry dependency.
Frank Wolf
#14. On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.
Danny McBride
#15. Do you think, Madame, that in heaven we will really get to see God face-to-face?" "We might." "What if you're blind?" "I'd expect that if God wants us to see something, we'll see it.
Anthony Doerr
#16. My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen - especially since God's power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit ... glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#17. Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.
Dinesh D'Souza
#19. Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.
Maurice Hinchey
#20. Anyone who wants a Prakruti (relative self) that brings worldly benefits, they should worship Mataji,the goddess mother. And those who want Moksha [ultimate liberation] should worship the Soul [Real Self]. Those who want both should worship both.
Dada Bhagwan
#21. Who wants a bag of bones?" he said, with absolute sincerity. "I don't want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I'm bedding.
Charlaine Harris
#22. The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
Soren Kierkegaard
#23. All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.
Jackie Collins
#24. The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it's another thing to say that's what God wants, that this is a glorification of God.
Elaine Pagels
#25. God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.
Francis Spufford
#26. For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one's progress on the spiritual path and renew one's determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#27. There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.
Walter Mosley
#28. God doesn't want us to be gamblers. He wants us to be investors.
Joyce Meyer
#29. If a woman-in-a-man's body goes after a man, is she attracted to the same or the opposite sex? If a man-in-a -woman's body wants a woman, is he a lesbian or straight? Prejudice is only cowardice in the face of complexity.
Jay Lemke
#30. Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.
Alex Tabarrok
#31. The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
Malcolm Gladwell
#32. I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered at how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention.
Donald Miller
#33. Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and that only He knows the way. That is the testimony we must have to keep praying like a submissive child, in the good times as well as the times of trouble.
Henry B. Eyring
#34. As though he doesn't know if he wants to kiss you or kill you
Sarah MacLean
#35. lithographic
landscape beyond the forgotten
ocean of the innermost ear
where one boy, with a wolf for a heart, wants
to eat the songbird nesting inside the other
John D. Fry
#36. Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
Henry Taylor
#37. All right, then. If she wants to be like that, there's nothing I can do.
Robert Jordan
#38. Who wants to go down the creepy tunnel inside the tomb first?
- Riley Poole
Ann Lloyd
#39. If your opponent wants to fight, the fight will be very interesting not just for the audience, but for myself.
Vitali Klitschko
#40. The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination.
Henry Miller
#41. Of course kids should pay taxes.Tell littlie johnny if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud,he's got to pay3 more pennies when he buys a candy bar.
Jim Rohn
#42. When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story.
Geraldine Brooks
#43. If we are not being moved in heart and moved to new places in life - new levels of obedience to God - we are not really reading the Bible the way God wants us to.
George H. Guthrie
#44. God has a right to interrupt your life. He is Lord. When you accepted Him as Lord, you gave Him the right to help Himself to your life anytime He wants.
Henry Blackaby
#45. Angels have a sense of humor ... The angels wants us to enjoy life. Have a good laugh at yourself every now and again for taking life seriously. Then take time to laugh with the angels!
Margaret Neylon
#46. God wants you to have a good life, a life filled with love, joy, peace, and fulfillment. That doesn't mean it will always be easy, but it does mean that it will always be good.
Joel Osteen
#47. Their is a side of me that wants to do artistic things that would never be on the radio. Then their is a side that loves pop music. In "Marianas Trench" its me trying to figure out how to have both of those things coexcist
Josh Ramsay Of Marianas Trench
#48. When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be want what, in fact, will not make us happy.
C.S. Lewis
#49. John Kerry said today he wants to debate President Bush once a month. Hey good luck, if Bush couldn't make it to the National Guard once a month, he's not going to show up for this.
Jay Leno
#50. I don't like the term "universal bank." The Chinese government legitimately wants to have a very strong economy. When they talk about SOE reform, they know that's part of it.
Jamie Dimon
#51. Why do men have nipples? Because God is a woman and she really wants us to enjoy ourselves, that's why.
Cameron Dean
#52. And if he wants more, she'll give it. If he says, 'God means for us to do this,' she'll believe him.
Ava Dellaira
#53. Maybe the kind of guy worth your time is the kind of guy who's there from the beginning. Who wants you from the beginning.
Chloe Neill
#54. Somebody, somewhere Wants me and needs me And that's very wonderful to know.
Frank Loesser
#55. Recall that the fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#56. I'm a man, and I think every man wants to be No. 1.
Masayoshi Son
#57. One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?
Martha Plimpton
#58. But here's the bottom line, the president of the United States, he controls the bully pulpit, he can talk about anything he wants to talk about.
Timothy Griffin
#59. Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.
Paul Davies
#61. The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#62. Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.
Sela Ward
#63. Communication is always " propaganda ." The emitter always wants "to get something across.
Peter Drucker
#64. Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.
Thomas Boston
#65. Standards are like toothbrushes. Everybody wants one but nobody wants to use anybody else's.
Connie Morella
#66. I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely ... The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country.
Rick Santorum
#67. Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club.
Winsor McCay
#68. When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.
Mary McCarthy
#69. If the baron is a masochist himself, then why would he attract another masochist? I suppose he wants someone cute to attract other sadists.
Edmund White
#70. Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants a gun - except at 4am when they hear a strange sound in the kitchen.
Jeremy Clarkson
#71. To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
James Russell Lowell
#72. I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.
Helena Bonham Carter
#73. The body cannot take chronic terror; it must defend itself by refusing to harbor the spirit that wants to soar through it and experience life to the fullest.
Carmen Aguirre
#74. "Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.
Charles Dickens
#75. You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.
Deepak Chopra
#76. I knew Bob Dylan was searching for the truth and had been for years. And anyone who Really wants the truth ends up at Jesus
Johnny Cash
#77. I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.
Franka Potente
#78. My girlfriend wants to get married. I tell you - I hope she meets somebody nice.
Adam Ferrara
#79. The image sears my brain too, and I wonder if I will ever be able to forget it. Although I realize that I am in trouble here, there is still a part of me that wants to giggle. The situation has moved so out of control, I half-expect him to pull out a pair of furry handcuffs.
Julie Buxbaum
#80. Learn from this, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Hell does have an exit, and I found it. For those who are still looking for a way out, I left the door open and I'll be waiting for whoever wants to grow with me.
Kid Cudi
#81. I never was taught how to go into a meeting and talk about a tour and how to plan a show, but seeing that side of things [about] someone who wants to be a Unicorn but has to now be a boss and navigate this is a really powerful and interesting story.
Lilly Singh
#82. I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs ... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.
Monica Potter
#83. I like poached eggs, but I'll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants.
Ruth Reichl
#84. An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.
Diane Ackerman
#85. The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.
Michael Bloomberg
#86. One of the awful secrets of seventeen is that it still has seven hiding inside it. Sometimes seven comes tumbling out, even when seventeen wants to be Grown-Up and proud. This is also one of the awful secrets of seventy.
Catherynne M Valente
#87. James 2:19- 'You believe there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that- and shudder.' God doesn't just want us to have good theology; He wants us to know and love Him.
Francis Chan
#88. I'm not an expert in stillness, but I have been trying to practice more peace in my life. As someone who wants it all, and tries to go after it, I once thought including quiet time in my routine was a good idea. Now I find it's more than that - it's critical to my success.
Michelle McCullough
#89. Part of you wants to look over at the people watching and say, "Not bad, huh? Me and Clint Eastwood." But you have to get past that and just be an actor.
Gary Cole
#90. I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity.
Narendra Modi
#91. The fiction, as always, is secondary to the history; the real women are always more complex and more conflicted, greater than the heroines of the novel, just as real women now, as then, are often greater than they are reported, sometimes greater than the world wants them to be.
Philippa Gregory
#92. I turn to Mrs. Kasperek; this feels urgent to me. Do you know what Caliban says when he wants to take away Prospero's magic? 'Remember, first to possess his books; for without them he's but a sot.
Deborah Meyler
#93. The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.
Richard M. Nixon
#95. Healing comes by faith. Faith is destroyed by doubt. If you doubt whether God wants people to be healed, you won't see them healed.
Praying Medic
#96. Let your love for your friends, who are standing with you, and your love for the Lord, who wants you to honor Him in the way you treat your body, make you think it over.
Lysa TerKeurst
#97. God told me to smite Osama bin Laden, so I invaded Afghanistan. Then He told me to smite Saddam Hussein, so I invaded Iraq. Now He wants me to work on the Middle East problem ...
George W. Bush
#98. I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.
Jerry Yang
#99.
Why yes he thought it ain't a place a man wants to go back to; the place dont even need to be there no more. What aches a man to go back to is what he remembers.
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William Faulkner
#100. The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
Adam Phillips
