Wants Quotes (page 259)

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• feeling
• fire
• cold

When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not. Haruki Murakami

• men
• believe
• waste

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment Malcolm X

• crying
• justice
• together

I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system. I don’t want to romanticize them. But I do remember (in rough paraphrase) a statement I once read: “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is. Howard Zinn

• happy
• sad
• about

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp. Theodore Dreiser

• relations
• publications
• relates

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. George Orwell

• manly
• processes
• producing

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the manor woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. Benjamin Harrison

• hope
• end
• enough

I hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that they don't want it ended Wallace Stegner

• moments
• change
• dumb

Oh these dumb dumb dumb Okies, they'll never change, how com-pletely and how unbelievably dumb, the moment it comes time to act, this paralysis, scared, hysterical, nothing frightens em more than what they WANT- it's MY FATHER MY FATER MY FATHER all over again! Jack Kerouac

• you me
• god
• question

Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today? John C. Maxwell

• ego
• wanted
• importation

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. Douglas Adams

• silly
• rock
• help

The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly song can help along. Yours ever and sincerely: At least we know for certain that we are three old sinners, that this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners, and miss our wives, our books, our dogs, but have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are. To discover how to be human now. Is the reason we follow this star. W. H. Auden

• world
• whole world
• want

I wanted the whole world or nothing. Charles Bukowski

• simple
• princess
• professional

My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess. Janet Evanovich

• achievement
• look
• real

We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors. Rainer Maria Rilke

• wind
• travel
• real

Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By taking my hand, she showed me what these things were. That within the real world, a place like this existed. In the space of those ten seconds I became I tiny bird, fluttering in the air, the wind rushing by. From high in the sky I could see a scene far away. It was so far off I couldn't make it out clearly, yet something was there, and I knew that someday I... Haruki Murakami