I Want Quotes

I'm a pretty average guy and want to keep a low profile. I don't want the world necessarily to know about me.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.

Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'

When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

I'm definitely the person for most of my friends that everyone calls, goes to and wants advice from.

The spirits, he said, the souls. They are not angry at the living, they just want to help. Helping others is the only way we can prove we still matter.

I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?

No doubt, there are times when I'm like "We have all gotten really used to saying whatever the f - k we want to say," and it's something that I really take seriously, whatever that may be.

I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

I can't wait to be a mum for a bit. I'm always a mum, of course, but I want to be domesticated and be in my house and do the school runs and all that.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of unrealistic comparisons.

Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.

I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.

I don't speak up if I'm working. As a model, no one pays me for my opinion. I want to wear whatever will make a great photo, whether I like it or not. But if the shoes are too small, I will complain!

Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

When I came to Ole Miss, everyone expected me to bring the program back to its glory days. I didn't want to put that kind of pressure on myself.

You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

I saw Alien when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.

I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.

I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly because I love music too much to mess it up.

Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.

I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.

McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what?