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Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy. — Carmen Electra

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth. — David Whyte

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. — George Orwell

Continuous exercise can wear you down and wear you out. What once was a passion has now become just a chore that you dread. — Helen M. Ryan

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective. — William Penn

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get. — J.I. Packer

And the feeling I had was not of wanting her so much as being surrounded by her, blundering inside her life without having moved. — Jennifer Egan

All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness, in themselves or nature. — Bell Hooks

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all. — William Shakespeare

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. — Eckhart Tolle

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people. — Prince William

I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not. — Neil Gaiman

The emotional question became why Susy had rejected me. I was interested in that shift, from actively wanting to actively not wanting. — Olivia Sudjic

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not. — Thich Nhat Hanh

You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not. — Andy Rooney

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,
Let him not know't and he's not robb'd at all. — William Shakespeare

Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have. — Gretchen Rubin

I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out ... It's not something easily described or understood. — Marilyn Manson

It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay. - China Sorrows - — Derek Landy

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me. — Elisha Cuthbert

The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get, — Alex Trebek

Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place. — James Frey

Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one. — David Pietrusza

Renunciation is liberation. Not wanting is power. — Fernando Pessoa

One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library. — Sarah Noffke

That weird feeling of wanting to be found and not wanting to be found stuck with me. — Cassandra Rose Clarke

Loving a person is wanting him/her (with variable degrees of desire down to friendship and even neighborhood); not needing him/her. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. — Daniel Handler

There is nothing shameful in wanting, Venetia. There's only shame in not getting. — Karen Hawkins

I admire Mark Zuckerberg ... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot. — Steve Jobs

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not. — Stephen King

Wanting something to be the truth does not make it true and believing that something is reality does not make it real. — Jim Vuksic

Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have. — Sheryl Crow

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best. — Mary Astell

Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before ... — Elizabeth Gaskell

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting! — Charles Spurgeon

Loss is not as bad as wanting more. — Lao-Tzu

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants. — Carolyn Parkhurst

Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content. For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."
- from "Dimpellumpzki — Richelle E. Goodrich

When human aid fails us, all is not wanting; for God takes over and takes care of us by His special Providence. — Francis De Sales

I can't imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don't dilute legitimate U.S. citizens' vote. — Rick Scott

The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time. — Alice Waters

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable? — Saint Augustine

Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place. — Nelson Mandela

Happiness is not about getting what you want--it is about wanting what you've got. — Michael Brodeur

Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity. — Max McKeown

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried. — Henry Parry Liddon

Wanting everything that's mine to actually be mine and not at the mercy of others and their mistakes. — Cecelia Ahern

Wanting love is not selfish, Rain. We're all born missing the connections that make us complete. — C.L. Wilson

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting. — Plutarch

I am fearing because I am seeing that the only way not to be fighting is to die. I am not wanting to die. — Uzodinma Iweala

I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss. — Leni Zumas

It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting. — Susanna Clarke

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. — Albert Camus

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want. — Stanley Kubrick

But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way. — Neil Gaiman

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river. — Emile Hirsch

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera. — Helmut Newton

If she felt my gaze upon her, I assume she was accustomed to being stared at, just as I was used to wanting what I could not have. — Alice Hoffman

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting. — Deb Caletti

Caretaking is never about the other person. It's about wanting to feel needed because you're afraid you're not wanted. — Claire Fontaine

I'll always want you, Olivia. It was never about not wanting you, it was about wanting you too much and you not wanting me back! — Tarryn Fisher

The trick was just not wanting anything. That was power. That was courage: the courage not to love anyone or hope for anything. — Lev Grossman

I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters. — Minimaks

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales. — Lisa Jakub

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. — Franz Kafka

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true — Leonard Nimoy

What keeps this boy going...is the intense feeling of not wanting to be alone. — Hotaru Odagiri

People make excuses [for not wanting to fight me]. It has a lot to do with my style. I'm a crafty fighter but I can also punch. — Erislandy Lara

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. — Carlo Goldoni

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music. — Barry Gibb

We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild. — Thomm Quackenbush

Knowledge comes from learning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference! — Robbie Thomas

The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey. — Annie Besant

I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen. — Dominic Cooper

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist. — Steven Squyres

she had been moping around school, not wanting to do anything besides painting and reading books. — Kim Richardson

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor. — Jodie Foster

Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission. — Bulent Ecevit

Not believing that her wanting him alive wasn't enough to bring him back. — Rachel Joyce

He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning. — Ian McEwan

(disliking people rarely being a sufficient reason for not wanting them to like us). — Alain De Botton

We're like childer, ever wanting what we han not got. — Elizabeth Gaskell

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing. — Tyra Banks

Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold the others book for them to read. — Faye Hall

To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully. — Mike White

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real. — Michelle Hodkin

Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors. — Feist

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you have! — Sheryl Crow

Wanting something to be different will not make it so. — Scott Frost

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

I also have this kind of fascination with Don Quixote, kind of like wanting something you're not going to get. I like that a lot. — Sean William Scott

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. — Marion Milner

The establishment isn't new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives, isn't anything new. — Rush Limbaugh

The key to happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you get — Jane Green

When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again. — Natalie Massenet

He isn't interested in simple. He wants what he wants. No matter how much trouble she is and no matter whether he even understands it himself. — Deanna Raybourn

No, probably not. But only because I can't imagine ever wanting to be with anyone else ever again. — T. Torrest