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Clive, at moments like this, had a smile like the lace in an old-style football. Anyone could be forgiven for wanting to boot it. — Graham Joyce

The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city. — Vance Bourjaily

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

They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives. — Frank Herbert

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel. — Clint Eastwood

Wanting to win is what keeps the trade on, If you win, you lose the trade. — Auliq Ice

To stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it. — Orson Scott Card

Dick walked beside her, feeling her unhappiness, and wanting to drink the rain that touched her cheek. — F Scott Fitzgerald

We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting. — Julie Otsuka

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

I wanted to cry for wanting to cry. — C.J. Roberts

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

With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity. — Franz Stampfl

You can't condemn me for wanting you, unless you condemn every other man who has. -Clayton Westmoreland — Judith McNaught

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre. — Christopher Durang

To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless. — Jack Kornfield

She didn't want to die. She couldn't imagine wanting to die ... Death was for - for other people. — Agatha Christie

Oh no, me wanting this is never going to happen. Like, the never-ever part is Taylor Swift level of never-ever. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery. — Lewis Thomas

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun. — Chris Hardwick

If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently. — Bryant McGill

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest. — Daley Thompson

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs. — Samantha Power

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

It's always the one you shouldn't want that you end up wanting the most — Linda Kage

I can't forget the times we spent alone together. They leave me wanting more. — Yozaburo Kanari Seimaru Amagi

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money. — Joseph Sobran

She felt that she was being measured and found wanting. — Madeleine L'Engle

I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page. — Nelson DeMille

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

Wanting and wishing are very different — Jonathan Friesen

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

Nobody is left more wanting than the one who did only what he wanted. — Beth Moore

Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked. — Jada Pinkett Smith

She was stronger than Stew Mitchum, or maybe she just wanted something more than he did. — Lemony Snicket

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

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

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning. — Pat Riley

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

I be wanting to speak on stuff sometimes, but Spirit be like, "Leave that shit alone, hear?" And I be like, "Yes, ma'am. — Trelani Michelle

Please just tell me where you are.
His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful fro being difficult to explain. — Maggie Stiefvater

The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods. — Thomas Aquinas

We cannot stop wanting. Wanting is the tireless engine of life itself. — Shai Tubali

The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do? — Amanda Lindhout

I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can. — David Papineau

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change. — Eckhart Tolle

If you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get. — Patricia Wentworth

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative. — David Levithan

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

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all. — Davey Havok

More than wanting you for myself, I want you to have a good life. — C.D. Reiss

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood. — Bear Bryant

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina. — Suzanne Farrell

You're actin' like a girl, wanting to add me on Facebook and change your relationship status, — L.A. Casey

I wish I could fly.
I wish I were rich.
I wish I had more time."
"But you can, and you are, and you do;
I wish you would open your eyes. — Richelle E. Goodrich

It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience. — Christopher Nolan

But even in sleep, her ghosts all hunt her down, wanting her to look at them, remember them. — Katherena Vermette

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 hate him and I hate myself for wanting him to touch me again. — Katie McGarry

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting. — Thomas Huxley

I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her. — Jonathan Franzen

We are consciousness wanting to expand. — Helene Cardona

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

What is it about you Keira, that has a man wanting to fuck you senseless into submission one minute and strangle the breath from your body the next? — Stephanie Hudson

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it. — Samuel Johnson

..." Happpiness is wanting what you have — Cynthia Hand

You remind me of my first concert. The one I told you about on New Year's. You remind me of the feeling of wanting to make something. — Ava Dellaira

You are a beautiful lady. I won't deny that. But there's a difference between admiring a painting and wanting to buy it. — Jaima Fixsen

Wanting to transform the World it is impossible without the blaze of love. Only love can truly transform the World. — Samael Aun Weor

I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school. — Paul Schneider

Wanting someone to notice you all the while praying no one does. — Tarryn Fisher

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

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. — Sylvia Plath

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

I can't hold back from wanting you right now, Ava."
"Don't!" I commanded. — Nicole Gulla

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting. — Terence McKenna

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

I don't want to die without scars. — Brad Pitt

Everybody has their own ways of wanting to do things. — Kevin Drew

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

I am always hungry and wanting to have sex. This is a fact. — Eileen Myles

False love is just wanting someone else, but true love is wanting someone else to be happy. — Menna Van Praag

It must be obvious ... that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. — Shunryu Suzuki

Wanting to repent is the sign God hasn't abandoned you. It is God, after all, who puts in us the desire to come to Him. — J.D. Greear

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans. — Bill Hicks

His lips are so close to my ear I'm water and nothing and everything and melting into a wanting so desperate it burns as I swallow it down. — Tahereh Mafi

[Love] ... that sick kind of wanting that rips at your soul while making you look like some kind of psycho to the rest of the world. — J.H. Trumble

It was about them having pride in that and wanting everyone to know it, especially you. Ham — Kristen Ashley

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

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Wanting to die and dying, she found were two separate things. — Jane Yolen

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting. — David Mitchell

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

You never know what you are going to want until you see it clearly. — Shirley Jackson

People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are. — Bobby Davro

I've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids. — Gareth Gates

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton