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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It's about God who wants to give to you.

My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."

My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy plummet; see, a rock appears; Thy ships want sea-room; make it with thy tears.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.

Somebody, somewhere Wants me and needs me And that's very wonderful to know.

An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.

More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

If someone has the chance to be top scorer and you want to encourage him, then you give him the chance to be top scorer but it never happened. That's why I believe something is going on there.

Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it.

While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.

I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.

All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark.

The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to do that.

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence

Life's too short to pretend and play games like that. I want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. People who make me happy.

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.

I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to people who make millions by murdering other living creatures.

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

There's this man who lives in the sky, and he has ten things he doesn't want you to do, and you'll burn for a long time if you do them. But he loves you.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.