Want Quotes - Page 242

If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

Anything I want comes into place.

Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else.

We want peace, but not at any price.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to believe in it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else— the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film or speaker banned because otherwise he himself might be harmed.

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Always look at what your goal is. Understand that there are going to be days when you feel like crap. There are going to be days where you feel like "I don't want to do this" but you've got to understand what you're doing it for.

Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

I think the last thing I want to do is switch doctors.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.