Want Quotes

Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.

Oliver Goldsmith

Constantly choose rather to want less than to have more.

Thomas à Kempis

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

How few our real wants and how vast our imaginary ones!

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's no way to refuse.

Suzanne Collins

I can’t need you, but I need you to need me. I know that makes me a selfish bastard but it’s all I can offer.

In life we do not attract what we want, we attract who we are.

Moffat Machingura

I’ll never let you go again,Melanie.Never.Nothing will come between us...nothing."I would destroy anything,and anyone who tried to take her from me.Being away from her was no longer an option.She was mine.Only mine.

It was need, Linden. I don’t want to need anything. I can make. I can destroy. Need implies something controls me and nothing controls me.

Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit. Look, it's like they say, if you're not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by 30, you've got no brains. Because there are no story-book romances, no fairy-tale endings. So before you run out and change the world, ask yourself, "What do you really want?

When you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

What do you want ?"It was a hard question, especially if I had to bat en down the sarcasm. I mean, there was the beauty pageant answer of world peace, although I’d probably have to render it in the beauty pageant spelling of world peas.

Your success is dependent upon what you do when you do not want to.

My heartfelt appreciation goes out to Jan Zwicky, Don McKay, John Barton, Barry Dempster, Carolyn Forché and Elizabeth Philips for their masterful eyes and minds.

Leigh Kotsilidis

I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.

Richard Paul Evans

If you want to live above the clouds, you will miss the rain! When you want something beautiful, you must also know that you may lose some other beautiful and even more valuable things!

Mehmet Murat ildan

We want who we want, right? No matter what other people say. No matter what reason or reality we’re faced with. No matter what facts our brains process. The heart’s a stubborn organ.

Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?

Everyone has something they can't live without.

Cassandra Clare

I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I want to read with you in front of an open fire, sipping a glass of wine. I want to drive you to the beach and lie next to you in the sun. I may not be a man of means, bit I want to take care of you as best I can.

Catherine Sanderson

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make... So-- as I recall, the official philosophical answer is that free will doesn't exist. Only the illusion of free will, because the causes of hour behavior are so complex that we can't trace them back. If you've got one line of dominoes knocking each other down, one by one, then you can always say, look, this domino fell because that one pushed it. But when you have an infinite number of dominoes that can be traced back in an infinite number of directions, you can never find where the causal chain begins. So you think, That domino fell because it wanted to... Even if there is no such thing as free will, we have to treat each other as if there were free will in order to live together in society.

Orson Scott Card

If you do not waste, you do not want.

This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

Kristin Cashore

Id you're finished picking out my flaws,maybe you'd like to tell me what you want now.I have other customers--""You.""What was that?""I Want You.

Johanna Lindsey

Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving.

I was dying to have a cat. But they wouldn't let me. My mother hated them. Not once in my life have I managed to get something I really wanted. Not once. Can you believe it? You can't understand what it's like to live like that. When you get used to that kind of life--of never having anything you want--then you stop knowing what it is you want.

Haruki Murakami

Excessive want is a form of desperation and a declaration of lack.

Want is small and will make you small. Want is needy and will make you needy.

I want you to be my black vulture:forever monogamous!

Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.

Richard Llewellyn

You can have the love you want, if you can afford its price tag. For every love has its price, monetary or non-monetary.

Antwi Isaac BORN2WIN

What exactly is it you want?

You were right. I'm going to make you want things you never knew you wanted.

I love your laugh. I want to hear it every day. I want to be through all this darkness and devastation. I want happiness now. I want our due. I want what we’ve deserved from the beginning.” He paused and stared deep into her eyes, willing her to understand how much he loved her. “I want you.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

You’re right, I do indeed want you. That doesn’t change the fact that you’re an asshole.

I don't want what I can't have. I don't want to want what I can't have. -Nate

I don't understand', I say,'why they care what I think, as long as I'm acting how they want me to.''You're acting how they want you to now', he says,'but what happens when your Abnegation-wired brain tells you to do something else, something they don't want?

I don't need you by my side. But I want you there. Very much want you there. That, I think, saysmore. Means more."He took the hand she held out to him. "We'll go down. James should be here soon

Life is not a question of how much happiness we want, it is how happiness uses time to make our wants into need.

Kasey Collin P. Dumdum

why couldn't someone , somewhere , want her for her ?

I know I had no right to do this to you, but if you ask me if I regret it, I will answer you no. If you ask me if I’d do it again, I’d say yes. I would do it again and again and again. There is a darkness in me that lives and breathes just like yours, except it’s motivated by love, and not by pain.

Angela Richardson

I felt need. It was you. I can never allow myself to need you. So, my only choice is to make you need me, because ridding myself of you is no longer an option.

If you want something,but you can't have it for now. Hold it, wait for the time and somehow, someday you'll get a chance that if you really want it you could have it.

Kenneth

You don’t want to be a rich businessman, a renowned artist, or whatsoever profession you choose to be into. What you really want is to be happy with what you do and to bring happiness in the lives of the people whom you love and who love you.

Yogesh Datta D.

It is not that I do not want you. Only that I might want you too much. And for too long

Samantha Shannon

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

Debasish Mridha

And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach."The prettiest are always further!" she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off.

I’ve known a boy. I’ve measured beauty. What more do I want?

Life is what you want it to be, not what others want to be

Kat Unda

If I want to be anything, I want to be a messenger of peace.

Debasish Mridha

Dont want success, Deserve it !!!

Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

Everyone wants to look for something of their own, a house of their own, a child of their own, a partner of their own, entirely for themselves alone. No one is satisfied with a room of their own any more.

Elfriede Jelinek

Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety.

Whatever you want you must ask.You get want you want.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.

Life wants you to know yourself, be yourself and love yourself.

Sometimes you don't want better but just what is YOURS..

RD

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