
Top 100 When You Want Quotes
#1. Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore.
Bela Karolyi
#2. When I'm single, I don't focus. I focus on a guy if he's a boyfriend, but I don't focus on finding a boyfriend. They're never around when you want them.
Scarlett Johansson
#3. When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Ugo Betti
#4. It's like when you want to make a house ... the technique is very important.
Cecilia Bartoli
#5. Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures. When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.
Paulo Coelho
#6. If you're having fun, enjoy it. If you're angry, get angry. And when you want to cry, go ahead and cry your heart out. You'll feel a lot better after a good cry. And then you'll be able to laugh again.
Daisuke Moriyama
#7. One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
Jerry Cantrell
#8. Why is it when you want the ground to swallow you whole, it decides to stop trying? -Ethon
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#9. When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
Tom Landry
#10. It takes love to hold on when you want to let go. It takes love to let go when you want to hold on.
Kate McGahan
#11. It seems to me there are times when you have to act and times when you have to wait, but the hardest times are those when you want to do one but you have to do the other and you're not sure which is the best.
Chris Fabry
#12. When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
Gabrielle Union
#13. Sometimes, when you want to make a difference in a person's life, stay out of it.
Dane Cook
#14. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.
Marilyn Manson
#15. Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you realize you've forgotten the name of the person you're introducing them to as well?"
"No.
Neil Gaiman
#16. When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe! That's when you find a way!
Eric Thomas
#17. Nothing said Clothes to Wear When You Want to Impress a Guy You Initially Shot Down, But Now You Realise You Like Him and Want to Get Him Back. Where was the outfit for that?
Kristin Walker
#18. There are times when you want your privacy, when you don't want the cameras in your face capturing your every move, every tear, every look. But I've gotten used to it.
Audrina Patridge
#19. When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
William Gibson
#20. When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.
Zig Ziglar
#21. When you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#22. Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.
Dogen
#23. In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
Catherine The Great
#24. When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.
Epictetus
#25. The times when you want to cry are when you have to try your hardest. That's why I decided I'll cry in general. Then, when I have to shed tears for a time when I really want to cry, my tears would have run dry
Jacuzzi Splot - Baccano
#26. when you want something in life you need a reason for wanting it, or else you'll give up when it gets too hard.
Michele G. Miller
#27. When you want me for real, not because you need release or because you think you're going to die, but when you actually want me, Kerry, you come find me. We'll finish this.
Kelly Moran
#28. You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.
Frank Herbert
#29. As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.
Taylor Handley
#30. There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.
Don DeLillo
#31. I hate dreaming because when you want to sleep, you want to sleep. Dreaming is work. Next thing you know, I have to build a go-cart with my ex-landlord.
Mitch Hedberg
#32. Love when you want to spend every waking moment with that person because they make you feel whole. Alive.
Shanora Williams
#33. When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.
David O. Russell
#35. I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.
Sydney Schanberg
#36. Questions are answered not when you want an answer but when the time for answers is right.
Eleanor Herman
#37. It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.
Ronnie Milsap
#38. Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout 'Attack!' but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.
Terry Pratchett
#39. Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out.
Frances McDormand
#40. That's the thing about trust; it's like love. You can't help who you trust or love sometimes - you just do - you can't turn it on and off when you want to.
Nicole Williams
#41. Tell me when you want to pick it up again."
"Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight."
"I'll do that. Lunch?
Kelley Armstrong
#42. When you want something, he entire universe conspires to help you achieve it.
Paulo Coelho
#43. Macarius said also, 'If you are stirred to anger when you want to reprove someone, you are gratifying your own passions. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.
Benedicta Ward
#44. When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.
Robert M. Pirsig
#45. The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one's grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#46. I'm awful sorry to bother. I can come back. I was wondering if maybe there was any special Program prayer for when you want to hang yourself.
David Foster Wallace
#47. Its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
Ned Vizzini
#48. You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.
Rob Gronkowski
#49. When you want someone back, but you know they will never ever want you back again.
Unknown
#50. Turn off all notifications; you should control when you want information, not the reverse.
Arianna Huffington
#51. Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.
Jack Johnson
#52. Cupcakes - when you want to watch your weight, but still feel the pride that comes with eating an entire cake.
Dana Gould
#53. Thinking of something to say is difficult when you want to be perceived as clever!
Lorraine Reguly
#54. Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone's heart and to feel it in your own.
Ruth Stafford Peale
#55. When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#56. When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
Bahman Ghobadi
#57. When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Bill Gates
#58. When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
Stendhal
#59. When you want to know what Penn State is, and when you want to know what 'We Are' means, come to THON.
Jay Paterno
#60. I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio.
Frank Lampard
#61. If you don't have a goal and don't know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are just drifting around. (You'll never get anywhere)
Ahmed Ali Anjum
#62. When you want something to move out of your life, don't focus on it. Give attention to what you want.
Hina Hashmi
#63. The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late.
Seth Godin
#64. Persistence is key when you want to achieve. You can't afford to quit just because you don't feel good about failure.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#65. Text me when you want to see me again, he signed. I'm giving you your space, but know this: I will wait forever for you.
J.R. Ward
#66. But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.
Gerald Kersh
#67. Making a lifestyle change is challenging, especially when you want to transform many things at once, you better start with one, when you see the change you'll have an automatic motivation entering into your life.
Auliq Ice
#68. He is not one: he is afraid. What is he afraid of? When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use. Then it disappears and what you wanted to understand disappears with it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#69. When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.
Sheryl Sandberg
#70. If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.
Bill Cosby
#71. I think it's hard to see people clearly when your heart gets in the way. When you want something to be real, you look for proof instead of truth.
Kit Rocha
#72. Sometimes when you want something for so long, you lose interest when you finally get it. "I
Natavia Stewart
#73. It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
Byron Katie
#74. I when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you will be successful
Eric Thomas
#75. Sometimes to be a good parent ... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.
Daniel Pearce
#76. Reproductive freedom is not just the ability not to have a child through birth control. It's the ability to have one if and when you want.
Pamela Madsen
#77. What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.
Steve Buscemi
#78. (The only time making a fist around the fork helps is when you want to stab someone because he's stealing your food. Now I know stabbing people is really rude, so I hold my fork in the grown-up way all the time, and I rely on discreet snarls to protect my dinner from predators.)
John Elder Robison
#79. We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
Larry Ellison
#80. I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.
Jeff Abbott
#81. You don't bless what you love ... It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway ... We have to bless what we hate ... It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.
Graham Greene
#82. Stories don't like to end when you want them to, do they? Loose ends aren't easy to snip with scissors or tuck inside a hem. They tempt you. They want you to keep pulling until there is nothing left to keep you warm.
Jan Ellison
#83. Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#84. Masturbation is always very safe. You not only control the person you're with, but you can leave when you want to.
Dudley Moore
#85. When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain.
Bill Maher
#86. For friends that always pick you up when you fall
And catapult you when you want to fly.
S.L. Jennings
#87. Evelyn said, "What's it called when a person needs a ... person ... when you want to be touched and the ... two are like one thing and there isn't anything else at all anywhere?"
Alicia, who had read books, thought about it. "Love," she said at length. She swallowed. "It's a madness. It's bad.
Theodore Sturgeon
#88. When you want something desperately, the whole universe conspires to get you that thing.
Paulo Coelho
#89. When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.
Lisa Vidal
#90. In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language, they don't go to the place they need to go to make the sound.
Elena Roger
#91. I have no way to ask about that. I have no elegant way of stepping into your heart to ask about that without tracking in filth. So I will wait, someday, when you want to tell me.. tell me then. I'll wait until then.
Josef Kucera
#92. God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.
Terrell Owens
#93. It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.
Brandon Mull
#94. When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.
Grenville Kleiser
#95. Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
Henry Ward Beecher
#96. There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
Aidan Chambers
#97. When you want a nation, that's called nationalism ... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.
Malcolm X
#98. When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.
Roger Crawford
#99. When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ... either they turn to a contemplation of the past ... or they set about to ... alter the future. And when you want to change something ... YOU BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Edward Albee
#100. It might seem counterintuitive, but bringing conflicts to light is the charismatic thing to do. Have the courage to call out when there is tension beneath the surface of an interaction. Let people know when they transgress boundaries, even when you want their favor.
Charlie Houpert
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