Wanting Quotes - page 37

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs. (Samantha Power)
The vision and the faculty divine Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. View quote
William Wordsworth
To love a thing means wanting it to live. View quote
Confucius
When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America. View quote
Rand Paul
I have always regretted having gotten involved with literature up to my neck. I would have preferred to have been a monk; but, as I said, I was torn between wanting fame and wishing to renounce the world. The basic problem is that if God exists, what is the point of literature? And if He doesn't exist, what is the point of literature? Either way, my writing, the only thing I have ever succeeded in doing, is invalidated. View quote
Eugène Ionesco
It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do? View quote
Arsène Wenger
It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? View quote
Arsène Wenger
The Surface Stations site has been up two days now, and I'm getting hundreds of registrations across the country from people wanting to get involved in the grass roots effort to photograph, measure, catalog and contribute to the database of weather stations. I'm getting inquires from Congress, Policy think tanks, and bloggers worldwide... I've been invited to submit a research paper, and I'm having a lot of fun too. Now I know why I lost the school board election, it was to give me time to do this. Everything happens for a reason. View quote
Anthony Watts
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
In wanting to kill himself, a man wants only to kill his consciousness of pain. I think therefore I am; therefore if I am not, I cannot think. (Antonella Gambotto-Burke)
I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody to fix and nurse me, and I'd take her hostage for six months. When you're 23, 24, you want to be in a relationship because they look brilliant - you've heard all the songs about it and seen all the movies and it looks great. View quote
Robbie Williams
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. View quote
Ann Landers
We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of allfriends. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
I feel like with actors wanting to direct, you really only have a shot or two. You can't just make a bunch of little independent movies, and then finally one gets noticed. You have to make a really good one right away. View quote
Neil Patrick Harris
It came down, once again, to the General Staff protecting itself, not wanting to admit its crime, an abomination that has been growing by the minute. View quote
Émile Zola
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. View quote
Andrew Motion
I keep wanting to repeat over and over and over again, the pain and shock of difference, the joy of commonness, the exhilaration of meeting through incredible odds against it. View quote
Cherríe Moraga
The part you don't expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it's hard and gruelling - the travelling, the meet-and-greets - it was too crazy. View quote
Cheryl James
It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in. (Christopher Hampton)
I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. View quote
Bill Gates
Oh, we'm come up from Somerset, Where the cider apples grow, We'm come to see your Majesty, An' how the world do go. And when you're wanting anyone, If you'll kindly let us know, We'll all come up from Somerset, Because we loves you so! View quote
Fred Weatherly
The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually. View quote
Norah Jones
Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts. View quote
Wim Wenders