I Want Quotes

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there.

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.

Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport — in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there is more room for them to drive their cars.

I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President.

The outpouring of generosity is overwhelming. People across the Lehigh Valley are moved by the images they are seeing on TV and they want to know how they can help.

I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.

We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers.

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.

It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?

I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

When I used to live in Asia, they used to say, "If you're going to sing karaoke, you want to go after the worst singer." And I'd be coming in Deutsche Telekom after the worst singer.

At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

Any politician who is not a unifier is not somebody that I want to be for.

If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.

I don't know the extent to which they do business [ in Wells Fargo]. I just want to see how this thing continues to unfold and if they have a legitimately major change in their culture.

We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.

I grew up with the Boston vibe and the Catholic vibe. I don't want to put anybody out.

For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate.

Now all of us in our thirties are the first generation that get to say, "I don't know how I feel about that system, I don't know if I want kids, I don't know if I want to get married."

[George Clooney] knows exactly what he wants and so he knows that you've done a good job before you do.

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.

I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.

I've got twins and a lovely wife and a great life and I don't want to miss that. So if I'm going to miss that it's got to be for something really good.

I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.