Wanted Quotes (page 487)

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• life
• hurt
• evening

The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. Morrie Schwartz

• mother
• hard
• nice

Didn't your mother ever tell you," Rob asked, "that you're supposed to play hard to get?" I looked at his lips. I probably don't need to tell you that they're really nice lips, kind of full and strong-looking. "What," I wanted to know, "is that going to get me? Meg Cabot

• buckets
• use
• cup

No we don't want a bucket of blood. Just a cup is all we could use Jimmy Buffett

• joy
• god
• love

We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands. Elizabeth Gilbert

• she
• climbing
• want

Why . . .” she begins. “Why do you want to climb it?” “Because it’s there. Dan Simmons

• fall
• may
• chip

I’m just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall where they may. Stephenie Meyer

• different
• manly
• wellness

Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad. Orson Scott Card

• always
• specificity
• been

I always wanted to be something, but now I see I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin

• freedom
• want
• ifs

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it. Edna Ferber

• want
• wants
• dressings

All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves L. M. Montgomery

• saying
• beauty
• beautiful

I want to get more familiar with you. I love you. I loved you when you came and sat on the bed--all that second afternoon was like warm mist--and I hear again the way you say my name--with that queer accent of yours. You arouse in me such a mixture of feelings, I don't know how to approach you. Only come to me--get closer and closer to me. It will be beautiful, I promise you. Henry Miller

• eyes
• star
• men

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt

• emotional
• bored
• evening

The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions (anger, jealousy, etc) to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago. Tom Robbins

• beauty
• common
• beautiful

Mrs. Sol Schwimmer is suing me because I made her bridge as I felt it and not to fit her ridiculous mouth! That's right! I can't work to order like a common tradesman! I decided her bridge should be enormous and billowing, with wild, explosive teeth flaring up in every direction like fire! Now she is upset because it won't fit in her mouth! She is so bourgeois and stupid. I want to smash her! I tried forcing the false plate in but it sticks out like a star burst chandelier. Still, I... Woody Allen

• look
• giving
• people

If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to. Alexander Pope