Top 100 Want Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Want

#1. If you want a creative organization, inaction is the worst kind of failure.

#2. Do your dreams find their way from your sub-conscious self, the part of your brain that's busy while you sleep, to your conscious self? From your night self to your day self? That's the question." She met William's eyes and held on. "Do you know what you want?

Dennis Vickers

#3. Happiness simply starts with a statement: "I WANT TO BE HAPPY".

Rossana Condoleo

#4. Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.

Danny Boyle

#5. Lacey-girl, books take you anywhere. Any place you want to go. You remember that always.

Carol Lynch Williams

#6. I don't want to go to the future. I'm scared of the future!

Chris Carmack

#7. All of us want to be better. Human nature is always seeking advancement.

Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

#8. As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

Dennis Rodman

#9. You're the most beautiful woman Ive ever seen. i just want you to be mine. I don't ever care what foods you like to eat or where you grew up. It's this primal thing with me, and I'm not a primal person.

C.M. Stunich

#10. My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

Cecily McMillan

#11. At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone's front stoop.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. I want the last cheque I write to bounce.

Chuck Feeney

#13. We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.

Jim Wallis

#16. Be honest! You are not going to want to admit energy loss. Someone is making it hard for you to look.

Frederick Lenz

#17. As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.

Dan Hawkins

#18. Pride, willfulness, and rebellion against what "is written" are the causes of the Bible being hard to understand. The hard part, then, is not understanding with the mind, but being willing to obey what he does not want to obey. If a person could not understand the truth, he could not reject it.

Finis Jennings Dake

#19. I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.

Diane Kruger

#20. I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view.

Franka Potente

#21. If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

Stefan Molyneux

#22. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#23. A woman who knows what she wants sexually, and isn't afraid to express it is so fucking hot, Camryn- Tell. Me. What. You. Want. Or, I won't give it to you.

J.A. Redmerski

#24. I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.

Denise Morrison

#25. I want young women to think about different possibilities for their lives.

Sara Blecher

#26. Women want a man who is sensitive, but god forbid you can't get it up after being frightened by a small woodland animal.

Dov Davidoff

#27. Yesterday in Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burial site for the 50 children of Ramses II ... Fifty children! What I want to know is, who decided to name a condom after this guy?

Conan O'Brien

#28. Choose, but don't want.

Neale Donald Walsch

#29. Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

David Levithan

#30. When I watch the movie, which is I don't know how many times I've done now with editing and everything, I walk out giddy just because I feel like that's the movie that I want to see.

Thomas Tull

#31. It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return.

Tim Berners-Lee

#32. My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity ... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

Zadie Smith

#33. I always wanted to direct. Directing is a lot more of a commitment though, a lot more time. I like directors who do very few takes, they know what they want.

Robert De Niro

#34. I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

Chuck Barris

#35. I've been really clear about this. If you want to be president, you should run for president. We should select our nominee from among the people who are running for president. Clear and simple. So no, I am not going to be the president. I am not going to be the nominee.

Paul Ryan

#36. Obviously, my daughter's my priority, so if you want to have plans with me and then my daughter calls, then I'm going to have to go with her.

Juan Pablo Galavis

#37. Again, I repeat, don't ask questions you don't want answered. Just accept the fact that Acheron is a freak of nature and let it go. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#38. Each stranger is like an unexplored continent whose depths you want to explore before you plant your flag in his heart.

Chloe Thurlow

#39. Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can't. Because we don't really believe we can die.

Deb Olin Unferth

#40. Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

Jonathan Swift

#41. You have my attention.
I know you want a motorcycle or you will think you want one for a while.
Well, I don't have one.
But I have an unusual heart.
And you can have it if you want it.

Jamie Tworkowski

#42. hi I hope u want to be my friends

Judy Blume

#43. I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

Enya

#44. I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

Zach Braff

#45. Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?"
She taps the side of her head.
"Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.

Jojo Moyes

#46. I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that.

Sasha Grey

#47. If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

James Richardson

#48. This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

Zadie Smith

#49. I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

David Beckham

#50. I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#51. You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.

Victor Levin

#52. I'm still lonely and it's a glorification of something I'm not finished with. I don't want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that's why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it.

Charlotte Eriksson

#53. When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

James Patterson

#54. Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.

Carl I. Hagen

#55. He begins to want. He begins to crave. He wants to possess. His mind finally begins to process, to think and plan ... He gives her his darkest, most serious look. He's telling her 'get ready, here we go.

Donya Petrock

#56. That's what you need to be writing about. Not the increased crime rate, but the increased tolerance for criminals to do whatever they want and not be held accountable.

Diane Moore

#57. I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.

Katee Sackhoff

#58. I want to kiss every inch of you. Then I want to lick every inch. And touch. Then suck. Then fuck. Every inch.

Olivia Cunning

#59. What makes you ask that?"
( ... ) "Why does anyone ask a question? Because I want to know the answer.

Cameron Dokey

#60. Fine art is really something I want to get into.

Adam Jones

#61. The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.

Anna Wintour

#62. You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

Albert Ellis

#63. I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

Audrey Tautou

#64. Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there's the seduction part of course, sex is a big part of the vampire thing.

Jonny Lee Miller

#65. I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

Sarah Polley

#66. You know, I think there should be a Zach Braff Day. We could have it on December 25th and then people can decide whether they want to celebrate me or Jesus. If you ask me, the choice is pretty obvious.

Zach Braff

#67. What more could anyone want than to try to change and be changed by someone?

Catherine Lacey

#68. If someone gave you a device with which you could see entire worlds just by holding it in front of your eyes, worlds of such beauty and complexity that they took your breath away ... wouldn't you want to show this device to everyone you knew?

Ann Patchett

#69. Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.

Paul Ryan

#70. You help yourself to a hug whenever you want one, sugar. They're warm, and they're free.

Diane Hammond

#71. There is no moment that isn't equivalent in value to any other moment. You have to surrender the little mind to the big mind, and turn what you want over to God.

Wayne Dyer

#72. Well," I said finally, knowing he was waiting, "you make me laugh."
He nodded. "And?"
"You're pretty good-looking."
"Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful."
"You want to be beautiful?" I asked him.
"Are you saying I'm not?

Sarah Dessen

#73. There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.

NeNe Leakes

#74. Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

Timothy Keller

#75. Our society is so obsessed with working out to be skinny, and none of that has a purpose. I love that my daughter sees me running because she knows I have a race and that I want to be faster. It becomes much less of a grind when it's that way.

Megyn Price

#76. I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull caps or cowls to banish hair, which is distracting. I want to isolate the face and concentrate on what is really going on deep within my subjects.

Joyce Tenneson

#77. You mean you want me to throw rocks at a bunch of monkeys in a tree in order to compete for food and prove that I, man, am the superior species? Chica," he said, clicking his tongue, "I've been waiting for an opportunity like this my whole life.

Jessica Khoury

#78. I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

Fatima Siad

#79. If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.

Charles Stanley

#80. We certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.

Mary Parker Follett

#81. So, whatever it is that's stopping you
from being with me, like we both know what you want, then fight it, babe, because I can't be without you a moment longer.

Samantha Towle

#82. Whom do you call bad?
Those who always want to induce shame.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#83. Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

Bernie Sanders

#84. I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.

Jim Cramer

#85. I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!

Raini Rodriguez

#86. The key to a good life is finding things that you want to master.

Lykke Li

#87. It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't been able to quite compete as I'm accustomed to. At this point, I just really want to enjoy it and put it all on the line when I'm out there.

Terrence Trammell

#88. There's some comfort in seeing things go on; birds keep singing, buses keep running. But if you want those things to continue, perhaps you have to accept that the other kinds of things, unhappier, even horrific ones, will continue too. And that's harder.

Ashley Hay

#89. If you want to succeed in what you do, learn how to compromise with the people around you.

Paul G. Bailey

#90. If you want to love God better, hate sin more.

Mark Hart

#91. My goal in this music business is to be here as long as I'm alive. I want my music to be here. I want to be the Michael Jackson and the Prince of hip-hop. I want to be a legend. I want to change the world. I want to give them songs that mean something.

Petey Pablo

#92. As a producer, what you want to do is make the next hit. But you also want to lead the audience into wanting to watch different movies. You have to vary your content.

Michelle Yeoh

#93. His voice took on a thick silkiness to it that made her want to press her body closer. "Octavia, you are welcome to touch any part of my body you wish. Just be careful of what you start. Once I lay claim to something, or someone, I will not part with it or them willingly." - Kade Egon

Sunshine Taylor Reddick

#94. I would never want to disrespect my beliefs. There are certain, obviously different, areas you wouldn't go. It's not congruent to who I am as a person, and it would be insincere, and it wouldn't be based on truth.

Riaad Moosa

#95. He accepted me for who I was, scabs and all. But he refused to accept that that was all I was. And when someone believes in you, goes out on a limb for you when they have no obligation to do shit - it has an impact. It made me want to look in the mirror and see the man he knew I could be. And

Emma Chase