Want Quotes - Page 609

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

I don't like that new age posture where you kind of tilt your head. I don't like that posture right now. I want something a little more confident and more sure of the values that we're defending, which are the old ones, love and empathy and patience and tolerance and civility. Not to get into politics or anything.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.

I'm not really hip to too much of the Zen or the Buddhist point of view, but you see I don't have to be because I just know that they're all the same, it's all the same, it's just whichever one you want to take and it happens that I'm taking the Hindu one.

I don't believe in telling all to the public, but I feel a certain gratitude to them for having provided me with a fine material base that enables me to do pretty much what I want, possibly, for the rest of my life.

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

So as soon as you want something to happen you begin skewing the data to support it. Our stuff is invaluable to decision-makers precisely because we have no ax to grind.

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

And now gay people want to get married... Haven't they suffered enough?

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

You're always learning about yourself, if you're honest with yourself. It's very tough to be honest with yourself. We all are dishonest with ourselves, a lot of the time. We don't want to deal with something, so we compartmentalize it.

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in.

You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that . . .

A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce." See Annabelle take control. He reached out, gently brushed his fingertip along her collarbone. "If it means saving your life, I'll do more than threaten you. I'll follow through. Best you realize that now, rather than cry foul later.