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Wants Quotes (page 245)

...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve. Alice Walker
Jane Austen quote: "I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly."
I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly. Jane Austen
David Foster Wallace quote: "I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only..."
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today. David Foster Wallace
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. Margaret Bourke-White
Roberto Bolano quote: "In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're..."
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats Roberto Bolano
James Patterson quote: "Do you want me to swear this time? Yes. Well, crap."
Do you want me to swear this time? Yes. Well, crap. James Patterson
Ayn Rand quote: "Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no..."
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants. Ayn Rand
You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that. Nicholas Sparks
Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place. Nelson Mandela
I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away? yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit? and wanted to shoot myself. Soren Kierkegaard
When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tup and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank into sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies. Sylvia Plath
...assistance will come unto you through the Holy Ghost as spiritual guidance. It is a power, beyond your own capability, that a loving Heavenly Father wants you to use consistently for your peace and happiness. Richard G. Scott
And that almost killed you?"It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind. Stephen King
An anxiety with no object or purpose in the present, and in the future nothing but endless sacrifice, by means of which he would attain nothing - that was what his days on earth held in store for him... What good was life to him? What prospects did he have? What did he have to strive for? Was he to live merely in order to exist? But a thousand times before he had been ready to give up his existence for an idea, for a hope, even for an imagining. Existence on its own had never been enough for... Fyodor Dostoevsky
You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are dark and hard to navigate. The wet walls touch your shoulders on each side. When the trees were there I cared that they were there. And now they are gone, does it matter? The passages where no one waits go on and give no promise of an end. You will find yourself among people, Faces, clothing, teeth and hair and words, and many words When there was life, I said... Paul Bowles

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