Want Quotes - Page 326

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

I'm doing what I have to do. I want everyone to know that I love them.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.

I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.

I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

I want to live to be 120. That's when I will start worrying about my age.

I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished.

You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.

Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life.

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.

I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?

On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to retain the spontaneity. If you know your subject too well you stop seeing it.

You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.

War is not a thing one wants.