Wants Quotes

...said Finn...“Only remember, Clare. In a dream, what you want will come out, one way or the other. ”“So . . . So I should be careful about what I want, then, right?”“No, you can’t be careful with what you want. Wanting isn’t a pet who stays at your heels; it’s a wild animal. You must become friendly with it. It will make an offer, and you will respond. Converse with what you want that way.”“So what should I try to want? What should I look for?”“Never look for what you should want and desire, but what you do want and desire. You should know that from your poetry. It is the only way to 'make' true. What you desire will appear, no matter how you try to erase or recolor it.”“All right,” said Clare. She turned her back on the ocean and the fire, and began to walk toward the dunes.

~ Katherine Catmull

Life becomes the way it is lived, and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

~ Christian D. Larson

consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late

~ Alexandra Potter

(...)And what did I want? (...)A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. (...) There were old wants too, to be loved for who I was, not what I could do, to lie in a meadow with a boy's arms around me and WATCH THE WIND MOVE THE CLOUDS. (...)

~ Leigh Bardugo

You can get what you want.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can posses what you desire.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.

~ A.w. Tozer

Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

~ Debbie Macomber

Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.

~ Gillian Shields

If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.

~ Walter Lippmann

Frogs, ducks, rhinos, octopuses – whatever you desire. The world will be built new for you every morning. If you stay here, you can have whatever you want.’ Coraline sighed. ‘You really don’t understand, do you?’ she said. ‘I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn’t mean anything. What then?

~ Neil Gaiman

i felt like i was wanting you more than ever..I want to fall asleep with the pure sound of your heart beat, wrapped around your warm arms, feeling your skin against mine and wake up with the sound of your sweet voice and a beautiful smile on a saturday morning.I want to kiss you from head to toe and drown in your carefree laughI want the entirety of you and love you endlessly.....when i wake up this morning and pondered of my wantsit break my heart to realise that my simple wants are nowhere near achievable....

~ Gagabriel

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

~ Gary Shteyngart

Now, as an adult, my hopes for the future were simple: I wanted to be alone, and to be surrounded by flowers. It seemed, finally, that I might get exactly what I wanted.

~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The Spirit filters through what I want and shows me who I am.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, & what you have no desire to waste your time on.

~ April Mae Monterrosa

I'm tired of being what everyone else wants.Tomorrow, I'm going to be what I want for a change.I'm going to be a rainbow.Now that's different!

~ Anthony T. Hincks

We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.

~ Dan Groat

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?

~ George Huang

My wants are so simple I don't even know what they are.

~ Marty Rubin

Maturity is when we can differentiate between our wants and needs and treat them as such.

~ Antwi Isaac - Born2Win.

Maturity is when we differentiate between our wants and needs and treatment them as such.

~ Antwi Isaac Born2Win

I wanted blood to signify life, not death.

~ Cheryl Drake Harris

It's so funny castle, you know, at first I loved that he was so busy. It just, it just gave me the opportunity to keep one foot out the door just on case.But with one foot out the door, it's hard to know where you stand. And even if I did what does it mean?

~ Richard Castle

America wants its respect.

~ Tupac Shakur

If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.

~ Billie Jean King

Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.

~ Nancy Gibbs

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

~ James Russell Lowell

No one wants to see curvy women.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

~ Blaise Pascal

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

~ Richard Dawkins

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

~ John Steinbeck