Top 100 Want The Quotes
#1. I wish my prose to be transparent-I don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.
V.S. Naipaul
#2. I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
Tavis Smiley
#3. All of us basically want the same things: opportunity for our children, and prosperity for our families and communities.
Christine Gregoire
#4. You know, it's scary when you sign onto a pilot of a series because, as much as you want the series to go, you also want it to be a character that you'd be interested in playing for a long time.
Lisa Edelstein
#5. The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.
Jason Chaffetz
#6. Beginnings are the hardest because they're the parts that pull people in, that make them want the ends. And endings are the most painful, the parts that can leave you bleeding out.
Krista Ritchie
#7. Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.
Haruki Murakami
#8. I heard what you said. I'm not the silly romantic you think. I don't want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don't want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want ... a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.
Shana Abe
#9. I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.
Questlove
#11. I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Desmond Tutu
#12. When you're applying for jobs, it's best to be employed while doing it. You want the world to know that you're not lollygagging between gigs, but instead have a lot of choices in front of you and are actively charting your own path.
Sophia Amoruso
#13. I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge ...
Ellsworth Kelly
#14. It's something I worry about when I'm working out. I don't want to get too fit. Because I don't want the new DaVinci of this Millennium to say, "You. I have found my muse. I have to sculpt you."
Jimmy Fallon
#15. What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
Ian McKellen
#16. Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.
Robert Gottlieb
#17. I want people to love to sit in my chairs. You gotta want the people to buy it because they love it.
Charles Pollock
#18. Give me the fucking camera, and I won't press charges for harassment. I just want the photos. He's
Kristen Proby
#19. Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.
Andre Marrou
#20. Now think about the Universal Law. It reflects to you exactly and precisely what you put out. If your thought-forms say, "I haven't got a clue about what I want," the Universal Law is going to say, "Listen, mate, if you haven't got a clue, neither have I.
Stuart Wilde
#21. The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't be in a monetary system if we didn't have to work, so if my music can contribute to happiness, then that's my main responsibility.
Jason Mraz
#22. His and hers?" "No," he says. "I don't care which, but make sure there's no difference in the plates. I'd rather the chef not know which is mine." The waiter nods and disappears as I regard Naz curiously. "Why don't you want the chef to know?" "Because if he knows which is mine, he might poison it.
J.M. Darhower
#23. I'm quite a particular singer, and I need to feel like I can bite into the song, in a way, to make it my own. You want the challenge of the songs having some attitude.
Neneh Cherry
#24. Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.
Laozi
#25. Some of us want the crown before the cross.
Billy Graham
#26. You walk a fine line when you have a performance at a show just as you do with having celebrities attend a show - you never want the attention to be drawn too far away from the clothing.
Mia Moretti
#27. I want the world, I think. Even if it scares me.
Sara Barnard
#28. You cannot command love, Lady, only beauty or lust does that. Do you want the world to be fair? Then just imagine a world with no kings, no queens, no lords, no passion and no magic. You would want to live in such a dull world?
Bernard Cornwell
#29. It's hard to get yourself into a position where someone will trust you to direct a film anyway, whatever sex you are. Certainly in England, the film set is a very male preserve. There's a lot of very rough looking men pushing equipment around that don't want the gaffer to be a girl.
Colin Firth
#30. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
Stephanie Perkins
#31. Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."
Keri Russell
#33. I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.
Louis Menand
#34. Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.
Sarah Vowell
#35. The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.
Jesse Metcalfe
#36. I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance ...
John Green
#37. We are all just illusions of what we want the world to believe about us,
A. Giannoccaro
#38. Think about spam filters; if email didn't come from someone that someone you know knows, that's an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just don't. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.
Clay Shirky
#39. Thus you get everything from this book that C. S. Lewis would want. The story drives the truth into your heart, and the Scripture behind the story drives it into your mind.
David Jeremiah
#40. My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.
Pedro Martinez
#41. When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.
Jason Mraz
#42. You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.
Bob Packwood
#43. I'm interested in loving, beautiful, sexy images ... I also want the images to be a turn on, create an adrenaline high, a rush of desire so intense that the act of looking is sexual.
Tee Corinne
#44. It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.
Robert Orben
#45. I would have a democratic process for people to get together and talk about the way they want the government to conduct business with China.
Tsai Ing-wen
#46. She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking candy bar. [ ... ] She reached down [ ... ] and chose a Galaxy bar [ ... ] "I'm going home." "You didn't pay for that," Francois shouted after her. "Fuck you, Frank," she shouted back and kept going.
J.D. Robb
#47. I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.
Moira Kelly
#48. I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.
Justin Lin
#49. We make a picture," he said, "of how we want the world to be, and most of the time it isn't like that. Holding on to that image causes the suffering. Not the world, not the truth. Our disappointment is what makes us hurt.
M.L.N. Hanover
#50. People tell their children there are no monsters in the world. They tell them that because they believe it, or they want the child to feel safe. But there are monsters, Luke, all the more frightening because they look like people.
Nora Roberts
#51. I want the cheesy dates at the movies, the stupid walks at the beach and sharing straws in a cup
Tyler, The Creator
#52. It's worse for you. You want the guilt to absolve you. Just like you want your wife and child to absolve you. Once absolved, you can kill or take soup.
Audrey Magee
#53. Merton wrote, "Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: the false self." With his typical insight, Merton identifies the false self as the person that we wish to present to the world, and the person we want the whole world to revolve around: Thus
James Martin
#55. You want the truth? Those two years you could have ended your life, but you didn't because you wanted to live. You weren't looking for a way out, Jay. You were looking for a way back in.
Nicole Reed
#56. What will happen between you and I, Ella? You will still want the normal life you have been fighting for, and I will be an ageless accessory in your life you will soon outgrow.
Inger Iversen
#57. We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like they know how to sail but there is no captain and we are all only passengers aboard the same sinking ship.
Donal O'Callaghan
#58. I just want the anger to go away...I want to be happy. I want to live.
Mary Burton
#59. This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.
Moshe Safdie
#60. I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.
Little Richard
#61. Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction.
Michael Ondaatje
#62. You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke.
Marcia Gay Harden
#63. Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory ...
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
#64. I want the voice of developing countries to be stronger.
Li Keqiang
#65. We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed.
Rush Limbaugh
#66. I want a place you hardly dare to even whisper. I want the bravery to not only read, but to do. I want a man, not a library boy. A man who is tall and witty and knows more about the world than you would ever dare dream.
Elise Kova
#67. Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.
M. Scott Peck
#68. I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John)
I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)
Laurell K. Hamilton
#69. Want the reality. The moments, like the Bradbury story, when Damien lets me in enough to see a bit of his past and a piece of his heart.
J. Kenner
#70. I didn't want to... want. The more you wanted, the further you had to fall.
Ellie James
#71. I use color as my chief guide. But I always squeeze an avocado - you want the fruit to feel close to the skin. If you can feel a separation, the avocado is past its prime. The avocado should have a little give, but not much.
Dorie Greenspan
#72. Love yourself enough to want the best for yourself in life starting with weight-loss and fitness to get you to
Kristy Graham
#73. I don't want the national award ... I seriously do not need any such thing. I would only want the audience to go and watch the film once and that will be more than enough for me. Once everybody should see the movie and say it is a good watch.
Kareena Kapoor
#74. The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.
Audrey Hepburn
#75. Be careful,' Irene warned Miri. 'All boys want the same thing.'
So do girls, Miri thought.
Judy Blume
#76. I seem to want the things I can't have. Occasionally, when something is finally attainable, the chase appears to be over and the fire burns out.
John O'Callaghan
#77. I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.
Woodrow Wilson
#78. I wouldn't let anyone know she's here if I were you," Holder says. "I doubt you would want the fact that you're a fucking pervert to be front-page news.
Colleen Hoover
#79. Wouldn't you leave a light on? Knowing what I knew and not knowing anything else at all, why would I want the darkness where the monsters hide?
Because killers hide there too.
Rob Thurman
#80. I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.
Matthew Bourne
#81. Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.
Abraham Maslow
#82. I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
Rachel Johnson
#83. I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.
Claudio Reyna
#84. If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza
#85. I went to rent a car, and the guy goes, 'Do you want the extra insurance?' I said, 'Why ... am I gonna get into an extra accident?
Robert Schimmel
#86. People didn't want the truth about the other side. They just wanted hope.
T.L. Hines
#87. Part of me wanted to talk myself out of what I was doing. I knew there was no coming back from the feelings I was allowing back, but I didn't really care. It was a crippling addiction and I didn't want the cure.
Teresa Mummert
#88. You want the truth? I liked it. It's good for the ego for a man to have a woman cry over him.
Nora Roberts
#89. I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
Emma Watson
#90. It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.
Richard Parks Bland
#91. When you're pregnant you just want to be comfortable - but I wear more or less the same as I do when I'm not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I'll want the floaty dresses!
Alessandra Ambrosio
#92. Nobody says the words anymore, but somehow the violence still remains. If I didn't want the violence to remain, I had to do a hell of a lot more than just say the right things and not say the wrong things.
Jason Reynolds
#93. The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.
Marlon Brando
#94. The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.
Candace Bushnell
#95. Is that how you play?" Daisy asked breezily. "I just envision how I want the bowl to go, and then I roll it.
Lisa Kleypas
#96. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#97. The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.
Meister Eckhart
#98. It was enormously challenging because you want that all-American girl, but you also want the cool WASP, privileged white girl. Usually, women in that package aren't funny.
Jenji Kohan
#99. It's important that you identify what the best things are in your life. The things that do more than just get you through the day. The things that make you want the next day to come. And once you identify those things, it's critical that you nurture them and keep them strong.
Michael Baron
#100. Yes, I want the whole enchilada! Who orders a partial enchilada?!
Alex Bosworth
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