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I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy.

People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

I want to put our resources where I think they're most needed: Getting rid of any violent person.

I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

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.

If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging out with many people really helps. I am not a people person and I spend a great deal of time on my own and in this environment, I get a lot done.

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you.

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.

All we want in Christ, we shall find in Christ. If we want little, we shall find little. If we want much, we shall find much; but if, in utter helplessness, we cast our all on Christ, He will be to us the whole treasury of God.

If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.

Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

Now it's somewhat easier for a woman to be a film producer or something like that if she wants, though it's not that easy. But to be any kind of successful woman took a lot of doing in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s... in the '70s it's getting simpler.