But it was also obvious that man could not live by work alone; that the particular man Jude, at any rate, wanted something to love.
— Thomas Hardy
I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.
— Mamie Van Doren
I wanted to have friends from all over the world in the way of a man who has no friends.
— Sam Lipsyte
I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.
— Stirling Moss
I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.
— Brad Templeton
I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.
— Paul Scholes
He asked her for coffee, but she wanted tea instead.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
She wanted a man whose trunk was thick but whose bark was thin, who flowered beautifully, even if only for her.
— Matthew Thomas
I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.
— David Alan Grier
I didn't marry a man that wanted to be in the business. But that's why we're a perfect fit.
— Niecy Nash
I tried to walk a mile in a man's shoes once. I ended up running most of the way!! Seems he wanted them back..
— Neil Leckman
No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Colt always wanted his first man-on-man sexual encounter to be with Jace Montgomery. The current problem? Now that he'd had Jace once, he wanted more.
— Kindle Alexander
I swear it looked like she wanted her words to slither around us and go out the door unheard.
— Jazz Feylynn
Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.
— Michael Catt
If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.
— Eiji Yoshikawa
I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
— Aleksandr Kuprin
When God invented man, he wanted him to look like me,
— Brian Oldfield
(Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man.") Sometimes I even
— Peter Straub
The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.
— Chester Himes
Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
— George Bernard Shaw
I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.
— Cat Deeley
Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear ... than a fact that he wishes was an opinion. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I wanted to ruffle this man's pretty feathers. Then I wanted to pluck them out and make a fancy headband. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did. — George McGovern
My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness. — Alice Hoffman
Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted. — Eva Figes
The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her. — Mary Papas
What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree. — Alice Hoffman
I've always wanted to be a man for a day. — Kym Whitley
Forget being turned on. This man, this kiss, encompassed everything she ever wanted. — Robin Bielman
He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find. — Alice Hoffman
I always wanted to be the strongest man on the field. Most of the time, they said I was lifting too much but I didn't believe in that at all. — Frank Thomas
When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me. — Rodney Dangerfield
He wanted to say that he yearned to accomplish something extraordinary, to be admired like a man riding at the head of a great procession. — Ken Liu
I wanted to be respected and to be loved. I longed for a man, like my father, to come and take me away from it all. — Nicci Greene
If you just give me a chance, I could be the man you've never dreamed of and never wanted. — Jarod Kintz
Catherine Deneuve is the man I've always wanted to be. — Gerard Depardieu
He wanted to tell her that he'd learned a man could come to love again without betraying his first love. — C.S. Harris
I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult. — Jeanette Winterson
I think I would probably be He-Man because Battle Cat would clinch the deal for me because I've always wanted a large, green cat. — Simon Pegg
Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends. — Rick Perlstein
In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted. — Honore De Balzac
Better to give the man what he wanted and save the objections for the battles worth fighting. — Orson Scott Card
Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks. — Helen Rowland
E wanted her.And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover ... as more. — Sarah MacLean
Fred shook his head again, this time giving Holden the vaguely frightened look of a man who wanted to back slowly out of the room. — James S.A. Corey
It was like every man in my life knew exactly what I wanted them to do and then did the exact opposite, just to fuck with me. "I'm — Donna Augustine
I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldn't possibly be thought of as gay. — Sean Maher
It doesn't matter if she wanted it or not. No self-respecting man would offer something like that to a girl, especially one that's drunk. — Krista Ritchie
Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton. — Lillian Gish
My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems. — Stephen King
Man, that woman was quick when she wanted to be. But put her behind the wheel of a Buick ... — Darynda Jones
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted. — C.S. Forester
He has come to be the great man he thought he wanted to be. If this is true, then he is not a man. He is still a little boy and wants the moon. — John Steinbeck
I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at. — Fredrik Backman
This was one benefit of being a grown man and not a kid: I wanted to impress this woman, but not to the point of getting myself killed. — Victor LaValle
Quinn wanted to make her see that people didn't live like this; but what was the use. No one was going to get her away from Bird Man out there. — Thomas McGuane
The bodies of a man and his dog fused together, skin and fur melded. Nobody wanted to die alone. — Jeremy Robert Johnson
I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my whole life would have been different. — Chaz Bono
I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits. — Florence Welch
Not once in her life had Darcy wanted to thumb her nose at danger and rip the clothes off a man, but she was contemplating that very thing. — Donna Grant
No man wanted to face warriors like Finan in battle. — Bernard Cornwell
It's not the way I wanted to spend eternity with the man I love, but it will have to do. At least we are together. — Theresa Braun
To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted. — Dashiell Hammett
I wanted to be afraid, especially when I saw the long,thin sword he carried in his hand, but I couldn't.The man was wearing a Snuggie. — Hannah Jayne
It was about her. I wanted the man who treated her how she deserved to be treated to be given the honor of giving away her daughter. In — Colleen Hoover
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world. — Barbra Streisand
Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist. — Chris Columbus
I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms. — Scott Spencer
All I wanted was a man who could love and who loved me, who I could share my secrets with and know his. — Christina Dodd
I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier. — Joe Hill
If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job. — Winston Churchill
If another man wanted me, I was valuable. I was esteemed, no matter that it wasn't self-esteem. — Stephanie Klein
Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections. — Henry David Thoreau
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. — Oriana Fallaci
She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it. — Alice Hoffman
I would have wanted you, yes. You're gorgeous and that's just the man in me. But I meant mine, Haley. I would have wanted you to be mine. — Rachel Higginson
There was a wall against learning. A man wanted his children to read, to figure, and that was enough. More might make them dissatisfied and flighty. — John Steinbeck
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead. — Sting
Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her. — Jack Kirby
Always, there was a tiny part of her that wanted to kill any man she knew. On principle. — Gail Carriger
I've always wanted to be the biggest real estate man to come down the pike. — Leona Helmsley
Oh yeah, she wanted to be this man's prey in every way. She'd felt his brand of dominance and wanted more of it. — Katie Reus
If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms. — Mike Ditka
God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a woman. — James Stephens
It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted. — Sara Sheridan
Whatever this man wanted, Kelsier's instincts said that he shouldn't be allowed to have it. — Brandon Sanderson
I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!' — Brian Eno
Itd be cool to carry on doing films, but when I was a kid I wanted to be an ice cream man. — Rupert Grint
I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.' — Corey Haim
She didn't need a man. She wanted one. — Robin Bielman
I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me. — Charles Manson
