Top 100 You Get What You Want Quotes
#1. That's not a lucky thing, Cecil," said Teresa, "it's a sacred thing."
"What's the difference?" Cecil asked.
Teresa smiled. "Roughly this," she said. "A thing is magic if you get what you want through it; but if it is blessed you get what God wants through it.
Meriol Trevor
#2. Lean in, invade that foot and a half that is all theirs, their own space. Lean back when you get what you want. It's subliminal. Most of what goes on in a police interrogation has nothing to do with what is said.
Michael Connelly
#3. Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.
Irving Kristol
#4. Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.
Marian Keyes
#7. Calling a person 'sir' can often help you get what you want, unless of course the person is a woman.
Lemony Snicket
#8. Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
Sophia Loren
#9. Sometimes you get what you want not because it's right or fair or even smart, but because you just don't know any better.
Gayle Lynds
#10. How can you get what you want if you do not know what you are seeking?-RVM
R.v.m.
#11. There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.
Alison Lurie
#12. As if, within their high-pitched cries and songs, there are coded threats. 'Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.' Extract
Marian Keyes
#13. When you look for independence and you get what you want, how come you look back thinking what have I done?
Joey Tempest
#14. I like to think of myself as a pirate and you're just walking that person out on the plank. And then you pull them back when you get what you want. Of course, sometimes, in the beginning, you're going to push a little too far.
Bob Johnson
#16. On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
Hunter S. Thompson
#17. Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.
Diana Ross
#18. [Ivan: ] " ... you haven't let the lack of half-marks stop you. Or the rules. Or respect for reality, as afar as I can tell."
[Miles:] "I never let anything stop me. That's how you get what you want, Ivan. No one's going to just hand it to you.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#19. I think when you work really hard and you help others, God helps you get what you want.
Gina Rodriguez
#20. But if you don't take the chance to read the story, how will you know if you get what you want? Pickup that book and let me create your fairytale ending." "Talen,
Milly Taiden
#21. When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind.
William Monahan
#22. It's your life. If you don't make it so that you get what you want, nobody else will.
Abby McDonald
#23. So you see, I already have everything I want. And what do you get the man who has everything? Why, you get on your knees.
James Schannep
#24. Get scared later, and if you're scared now remember what Kit always said. If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery. And you want to be brave, don't you, Snicket?
Lemony Snicket
#25. If you're not looking for the right thing, you can't be disappointed if you don't get it.
Kenneth Eade
#26. She knew what it meant to want to return to safety and seed-husk again. But you cannot get back into your seed-husk, once it is cracked open and no longer yours.
Katherine Catmull
#27. I do think I'm terrific at giving advice. Although in our hearts we usually know what we should do. It's rare that you get in a situation in life where you don't know how to proceed. You know the thing you should do, but don't want to.
Paul F. Tompkins
#28. What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
Barbara Mandrell
#29. You think you know what you want and how it's all supposed to turn out. When all is said and done, you get what you need. You know in the end that what you need is what you really wanted all along.
Kate McGahan
#30. If you really know ... what you want and how to get there, then everything else really falls into place.
Marlen Esparza
#31. I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.
David Levithan
#32. Usually I don't think much in terms of interesting sounds. Although I think I want to get one of those whammy pedals, I forget what it's called and who makes it. It's got a whole bunch of different settings. You can play a note and it will raise the pitch when you push the pedal.
Mike Gordon
#33. If you find you're not getting what you want, stop and think about what it is you really need. If there is a lesson to be learned, learn it. Getting what you need, will often lead to what you truly want ...
James A. Murphy
#34. That's what you don't get, Hadlee. You're saving me too. Every second I spend with you, you save me a little more. When I'm around you, I want to better myself. I want to be a better man.
Lauren Hammond
#35. Its about letting go so you can get what what you want.
Bert Cooper
#36. I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?'
Rod Steiger
#37. But in the words of a great philosopher, you can't always get what you want.
Jonathan Kellerman
#38. I don't get it. Last night you were fine, sitting on my face and fucking my brains out. You didn't seem to have a problem with that last night. What the fuck, Gabriella? What the fuck do you want me to do?
Jettie Woodruff
#39. You see the most when you're not looking for anything in particular ... when you look too hard for something, you get nearsighted because you only see what you want to see.
Katie Kacvinsky
#40. That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.
Winona Ryder
#41. Oh my God, you're serious. Honey, I am a six time Women's Champion, if you get into the ring with me it will not be for a Lingerie Pillow Fight, it will not be to shoot t-shirts. If you get into the ring with me I will end your career just like that. Are you sure that's what you want?
Trish Stratus
#42. I'm a suburbanite nowIn L.A. you have to be so careful about what you say and who you trust. It's such an awful way to live. [In Chicago] people want to get to know you for you. I feel like I can just breathe.
Kristin Cavallari
#43. You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what ... I feel inside me ...
Katy Evans
#44. 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
#45. People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It's easy.
Susanna Kaysen
#46. I've never felt that way. I've never felt like a looser. You can't get what you want if you feel like it's you against the world. You'll never get anywhere with negativity. I make my own opportunities I don't feel like everything is against me.
Zacky Vengeance
#47. I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.
Jon Anderson
#48. I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in ... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.
Paul McCartney
#49. The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for.
If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Charlie Munger
#50. When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
Paul McCartney
#51. A lot of guys really I get the feeling don't care whether you like their show or not, you know. I want people to enjoy what I do, and understand what I'm doing is for their enjoyment, it's all I can ask for.
Regis Philbin
#52. I don't know if there is a 'lack' of good black men. But when you haven't taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can't possibly find that person for you because you don't even know what you're looking for.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#53. Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.
Tyson Fury
#54. If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.
Jimmy Chamberlin
#55. Hey!" Sam snapped, ducking the sticky shrapnel. "Keep your snot to yourself."
Dev scoffed at that. "Oh, so now you don't want to touch me, huh?" He tsked. "What is it with women? the instant you put a little slime on them, they get squeamish and have no more use for you.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#56. So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you're not doing it, you're not making progress at the fastest possible rate.
Joel Spolsky
#57. If you want to get more, appreciate and express heartfelt gratitude for what you have.
Debasish Mridha
#58. My Father, if there is any way, get me out of this. But please, not what I want. You, what do you want?
Anonymous
#59. I am what I am and I can't change it. I know how to cope and how to get by. I don't want or expect anyone to stand with me. I don't need anyone to. I've learned to accept my life just the way it is, and I don't give a damn if you or anyone else doesn't.
Nora Roberts
#60. Honestly, it's so easy to get what you want from people if they think you're a psycho.
Sophie Kinsella
#61. You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it's all about trust. They can do anything you want, it's just a matter of them understanding what you're looking for, and the reason why.
Darren Aronofsky
#62. The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.
Dale Carnegie
#63. The problem is that you can't really read a script saying, 'Hmmm, I'll just see what this is.' You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It's really difficult to get uninvolved.
Mads Mikkelsen
#64. Despite the aweful paparazzi drama that people seem to believe, i am still just like you ... i obsess over hot guys, get told what to do, and go to school. Believe what you want, but i am NORMAL ... whatever that means
Miley Cyrus
#65. You won't believe me, no matter what I say. Clearly there's nothing I can do or say that will change your opinion of me."
"You want everything, take all that you can get, but you give nothing back in return," Magnus snarled through clenched teeth. "Leave me.
Morgan Rhodes
#66. Kacie, get attached. Please, get attached. I sure as hell know I am. You're what I want. You and the girls. This is it for me." I brushed a fresh tear from her cheek. "I know we're taking our time, especially where the girls are concerned, but you're my more, remember?" "You're my more too.
Beth Ehemann
#67. Women who live the life of their dreams don't get there by being dainty and darling. They demand what they want and they do what it takes to make it happen. That could mean breaking a few rules, a few hearts, and a few habits along the way, especially the habit of apologizing for who you are.
Laurie Sue Brockway
#68. You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.
Bob Nelson
#69. To get to know yourself better, examine what you really want from life and become true to yourself, Be clear and honest and work hard to make it.
Auliq Ice
#70. I want my fans to understand that what you put into the universe is what you get back.
Becky G
#71. Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.
Brian Tracy
#72. If you are reading this, you will get what you want. Believe in yourself and that's inspiration.
Chandan Sharma
#73. Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.
Henry David Thoreau
#74. If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.
Susan Collins
#75. But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get
Anne Lamott
#76. I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles
#77. You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.
Lisa Loeb
#78. The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask 'what is true' - and then ask yourself 'what should be done about it.' I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don't!
Ray Dalio
#79. When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.
Edward Norton
#80. The zombie is the angle. You want people to get to the rest of what you just said? Embrace the zombie. We live in a society of self-absorbed, unaware drones desensitized to the suffering of others.
Tami Hoag
#81. The key to happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you get
Jane Green
#82. Before we get into that, there's something I want to do first."
There's amusement in her voice as she asks, "What do you want to do, Drew?"
I pick her up, sweep everything off my desk, and lay her down.
"You.
Emma Chase
#83. Apparently if you want to get a boy to like you, you go sort of mysterious and icy and cool. That's what my cousin said and she has loads of boyfriends and snogging-type experiences.
Louise Rennison
#84. Your inner want-monkey," he repeated. "The part of yourself that secretly wants to throw shit if you don't get what you want. You know, the kid who kicks and screams if you ask for sprinkles on your ice cream and your parents don't get you any." - Alexander 'Lex' Steel
Miranda Evans
#85. Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
J.I. Packer
#86. How do I know that you aren't manipulating me right now, like you do everyone else, to get what you want?"
"Because if that was true, you and I would already be lovers.
B. J. Daniels
#87. Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it.
Audrey Flack
#88. How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.
Craig Groeschel
#89. What I really want to do is, first of all, get my music out to the world. And then I would really just like to reach other kids all over the world and tell them to believe in themselves and prove to people that you can do anything you want.
Neon Hitch
#90. I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.
Cora Carmack
#91. Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.
S.A. Tawks
#92. That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?
Andrew Flintoff
#93. Late Fragment
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
Raymond Carver
#94. Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your life ... It takes time, and a lot of introspection and soul-searching, to get clear about what you really want to manifest in your life.
David Emerald Womeldorff
#95. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right - as right as you can, anyway - it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it. If you're very lucky ... more will want to do the former than the latter.
Stephen King
#96. Rose wasn't 'ordinary'. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her 'Here, I could give you the universe, but I'm not going to in case you get hurt? There's all this stuff out there, all these planets, all these wonders, but I want you to stay at home and work in a shop?
Jacqueline Rayner
#97. You need me? You yell. You want to leave? We go. I'll get you out of here, no matter what.
Richelle Mead
#98. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want." - ABRAHAM L. FEINBERG
Laura Doyle
#99. It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.
Tom Selleck
#100. If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries.
Dave Brat
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