Want Quotes - Page 421

In domestic life the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She "wants" to be at home, and because she is a woman she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesnt want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

I don't want to be someone's entertainment.

The world behaves differently when I take action to go after what I want.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.

The Holy Spirit truly transforms us. With our cooperation, he also wants to transform the world we live in.

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.

He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.

Jesus wants to make us holy at all costs. . .He offers you continual proof of this.

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.