I Want Quotes

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

I think all minority audiences watch movies with hope. They hope they will see what they want to see. That's why nobody really sees the same movie.

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.

Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.

I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

How can you call it unreasonable when all I want is my own way?

I always get offered the pretty, popular girl roles, but I want to do something dark, really challenge myself and get out of my comfort level.

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.

You do a movie and, even if it's not a comedy or it's not an action film, you get a little taste of it, and then I want to do it full force.

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

If I'm outside, I want something flat on my feet.

My fans firstly [inspire me]. They make me want to be a better person and really motivate me when times get tough. Also Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" and, oddly enough, hubcaps.

I'm not trying to run away from my fans at all. I want them to grow with me.

My agent didn't want me on Disney because I'm older. But honestly, I'm not ready for older roles yet, or even the things older girls do. I am still young.

It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.

We all have that desire for something special, something committed. We all want to be The One.

As an actor, I know that any feelings you're showing are manufactured. But I still don't want to fool my mind into thinking my wife's into another guy.

I love sport, so I'd love to do more stories if I can that deal with sport maybe. Other characters, actually the real guy is so interesting why would you want to get anyone to play them?

Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer."

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

I dont often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.

Games were moved to New Year's Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a tradition of watching football on New Year's Eve.

When I get married, I want to be really married

[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.

People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.

Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around.

People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.

I love when brides tell me they want to do something special and unique, but I'm not a fan of doing anything too crazy.

It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the collaboration with Oprah Winfrey].

I just refuse to listen to any more lies. You hear them from FEMA, you hear them from Red Cross and I just didn't want to hear it from him.

I hope to shine through my transparency and just let people know that we are all the same. I want children to look at things different like "You're shining too! You just shine in a different way."

It's not so much a philosophy as much as it is a pace. We need to be personally involved with every aspect of the records including the artwork, we want everything to have a similar aesthetic.

Donald Trump is now said that he wants to have a plan that's more harmonized with what House Republicans under speaker Paul Ryan have proposed.

You can make Jesus however you want. I think it's beautiful that there is no specific type, you can imagine whatever you want.