Want Quotes - Page 441

Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

If you want to be happy, be happy.

I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.

I don't want to pursue someone at all - I want someone to pursue me.

I don't want to have a friend unless I can call them one of my best friends.

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

What I want from you, those are just things like this. Not hot things, but warm things.

What many fail to realize is that being attached to what we think we want and don't have while resisting what is happening in the moment is the cause, not the cure, of much personal suffering and interpersonal conflict.

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

I want to light the lights of patriotism.

I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.

I need some me-time. I have to remember to rest, because I have a natural energy and I don't want to burn out.

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.

Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be *us*.

This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.