Quotes About You Can't Always Get What You Want

#1. It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it."
"What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?

Joe Hill

#2. It's still not perfect, and maybe perfection isn't all it's cut out to be anyway. But it's good. It's really good. They say you can't always get what you want. But sometimes you can, and you do, even when you don't deserve it.

J.H. Trumble

#3. You can't always get what you want.

Mick Jagger

#4. Want vs. What's Coming to You
As the Rolling Stones say,
You can't always get what you want ~
but God will always give you what's coming to you.

Beryl Dov

#5. I'm somewhere in the middle. I want both. Or I want it all. Or I only want part of both. I don't know. I just know that you don't always end up happy with what you thought would make you happy. You've probably been there a time or two yourself. You can't always get what you want.

Sarah Colonna

#6. You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.

Keith Richards

#7. When I'm moving down Broadway to meet Jean, my secretary, for brunch, in front of Tower Records a college student with a clipboard asks me to name the saddest song I know. I tell him, without pausing, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Beatles.

Anonymous

#8. But in the words of a great philosopher, you can't always get what you want.

Jonathan Kellerman

#9. Sometimes, we use the term 'growth' as a number and sometimes as an abstraction, but the underlying implication is always that, if the country grows at a certain rate, at the end there will be a pot of gold for everyone.

Jamshyd Godrej

#10. Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.

Isaac Jogues

#11. There's a girl in this dress,
there's always a girl in distress.

Elvis Costello

#12. My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.

William Shatner

#13. As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

Cary Fukunaga

#14. In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved.

Sean Terrence Best

#15. Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

Timothy Keller

#16. People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.

Emmy Rossum

#17. I believe faith is a journey, not something that we fix when it goes wrong or that we have to follow in a set required way, but something that is always opening up in front of us with the people me meet and the things we do, becoming more meaningful along the way.

Phil Mitchell

#18. Always follow your path, or the road less travelled.

Dinesh Sharma

#19. Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

Claes Oldenburg

#20. Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Stella Gibbons

#21. Life is always full of surprises. We have our ups and downs, but the biggest pleasure is enjoying the ups to keep us going.

J. Hale Turner

#22. Sin comes when communication lines are down - it always does, sooner or later.

Spencer W. Kimball

#23. The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think.

Robert Pinsky

#24. Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

Mo Rocca

#25. In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

Swami Vivekananda

#26. It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.

Helen Keller

#27. I will always be a translation.

Nayyirah Waheed

#28. Miracles are just formal requests, Shara thinks wildly. It's like having a form preprinted and filled out and handing it in to get exactly what you want! But you don't always have to do it that way! You can make it up as you go along, so long as you do it right!

Robert Jackson Bennett

#29. I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.

C. JoyBell C.

#30. #TRUTH
YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT
YOU WANT. BUT YOU SURE AS HELL
CAN LIVE A GREAT LIFE IN THE
PROCESS!

Timothy Pina

#31. I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want

Charlize Theron

#32. Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how good you are. That's a myth. We're all hanging in the best way we can.

Amy Tan

#33. I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, 'You can have a Rolls-Royce'. I'd say to that, 'What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a Volkswagen or a bike?' Some people get carried away with the juice.

Chuck Feeney

#34. I always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished ... it is not as if you can look back and think: ah ... I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be ...

Ben Whishaw

#35. You can always care [about what others think]. You probably always will care. But don't let it dictate your choices and what you want and what you want to accomplish and who you want to be. Don't let anyone get in the way of that. That's being yourself.

Jenna Marbles

#36. I've always wanted to do an adult cartoon, because I want a job where you can just drive up in your pajamas, have a cup of tea and not even get dressed, and you've gone to work for the day. What a great gig!

Rebecca Mader

#37. I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate ... if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished ... but I'm not going there ... I don't have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out - just listen.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

#38. For years I've been trying to turn myself into someone I'm not. Because that's what Court wanted. But you get me. I can be the man I want to be with you - the man I'm meant to be. You needed me to be that man. I'm a cop. Always have been, always will be.

Julie Miller

#39. If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through a difficult situation, my answer is always meditate. The difference between prayer and meditation is that when we pray, we are asking for something, and when we meditate, we are listening to the answer.

James Van Praagh

#40. Online, you can always get what you want. But what you need, that's a much harder thing to find.

Christian Rudder

#41. If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.

Ellen DeGeneres

#42. There are times where you can't always get paid to do the things you really want to do. What really epitomizes your dream job is the job that pays you to do what you want to do.

Phil Keoghan

#43. I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

Agatha Christie

#44. The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.

Norman Vincent Peale

#45. Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.

Sophia Loren

#46. Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

John Waters

#47. Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

Richard P. Feynman

#48. I'm sick of remakes, how about something different. That's the thing - people always come to me and are like 'what do you want to remake, we know we can get that greenlight, what do you want to make?' I don't want to remake a g-d damn focking think.

Rob Zombie

#49. When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

Michael J. Fox

#50. I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.

Snoop Dogg

#51. I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

John Niven

#52. The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

Marilynne Robinson

#53. Don't be satisfied ... always try to strive for more.

Johny Hendricks

#54. Why is it that whenever anyone says something offensive, they always add 'no offense' after it?

Michelle Hodkin

#55. In Mongolia, the nomads always told me that wolves were the most dangerous things on the steppe, and I didn't believe them at first.

Tim Cope

#56. 'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.

Richard Corliss

#57. Time should always by used well to maximise personal desires.

Steven Redhead

#58. Her sunny side was always up.

Richard Brautigan

#59. Spouse or collaborator, it comes to the same thing. And there is work to be done. Always, always work to be done." -David Leavitt, "Partition," _The Indian Clerk_

David Leavitt

#60. If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude.

Sherry Turkle

#61. I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#62. Science is not always what scientists do.

J. Allen Hynek

#63. I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

Dwayne Johnson

#64. A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.

Debasish Mridha

#65. And, anyway it's not always about fitting in."
"It's not?"
"Nope. Sometimes, it's about reading your environment real quick, and then finding the bits that fit you.

Melissa Keil

#66. People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.

Eoin Colfer

#67. I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

Ellie Goulding

#68. Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Suzanne M. Trauth

#69. ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.

F.B. Newman

#70. And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.

Paul Neilan

#71. Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.

Bert Blyleven

#72. We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

George Whyte-Melville

#73. On the three pigs he and his wife own: We acquired the pigs last year. My wife was born on a pig farm and has always been very fond of pigs. Of course, they are for eating, which is why they are named Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. You wouldn't want to eat Rufus, Marcus and Esmeralda.

John Mortimer

#74. Marriage was always the happening end, not the beginning.

Gloria Steinem

#75. The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

Thomas Sowell

#76. In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

Bjork

#77. In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.

Paul Theroux

#78. Well, she said, "The reception of the semen is the height of ecstasy. I want it always, constantly." Isn't that extraordinary?

D.M. Thomas

#79. What was myth in one world might always be fact in some other.

C.S. Lewis

#80. Polly had always marveled ... that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose ... gleefully ate every individually wrapped, plastic little one of them.

Sheri Holman

#81. Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, she suddenly turns right about and makes up for everything with so much charm that you vow again you always loved her!

Wilder Penfield

#82. Easier is not always better." -Emzara

C.D. Sutherland

#83. I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

Edward Abbey

#84. I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield."
Sean glanced at him. "And?"
"I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

Ilona Andrews

#85. We 'can't' always 'cushion' our views..
'Soften' the stance..
'Straight Talk' involves least effort..
No 'beating about the bush'..
Say it as it is..
Ofcourse, stay ready to be unpopular!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#86. The next question is how? How does news find us?
What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost always subject to an algorithm. The most powerful thing in your world now is an algorithm about which you know nothing about.

Kelly McBride

#87. Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Julius Rosenwald

#88. I'm always interested in contemporary fiction.

Kenneth Branagh