Wants Quotes (page 587)

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• hard
• getting
• doing

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is. Dean Koontz

• sky
• white
• wanting

A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife. Sylvia Plath

• newspaper
• because
• journalist

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. Christopher Hitchens

• chance
• top
• mountain

The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it’s taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it’s mountaineering; it’s wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don’t manage it Paulo Coelho

• beauty
• kindness
• look

I think you're intelligent and charming, and that you're a person with a kind heart. I know that when you want to, you can look more beautiful than anyone I've ever met. You're independent, you've got a good sense of humor, and you show surprising patience with children." -Alex Nicholas Sparks

• water
• love
• moon

I am your moon and your moonlight too. I am your flower garden and your water too. I have come all this way, eager for you. Without shoes or shawl. I want you to laugh. To kill all your worries. To love you. To nourish you. Rumi

• best
• writing
• help

The best way to get quiet, other than the combination of extensive therapy, Prozac, and a lobotomy, is first to notice that the station is on. KFKD [K-Fucked] is on every single morning when I sit down at my desk. So I sit for a moment and then say a small prayer--please help me get out of the way so I can write what wants to be written. Sometimes ritual quiets the racket. Try it. Any number of things may work for you--an altar, for instance, or votive candles, sage smudges, small-animal... Anne Lamott

• nurse
• life
• acceptance

Gentlemen, we are all cruel, we are all monsters, we all make people weep, mothers and nursing babies, but of all--let it be settled here and now--of all, I am the lowest vermin! So be it! Every day of my life I've been beating my breast and promising to reform, and every day I've done the same vile things. I understand now that for men such as I a blow is needed, a blow of fate, to catch them as with a noose and bind them by an external force. Never, never would I have risen by myself! ... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• want
• purifying
• sufferers

I want to suffer and be purified by suffering! Fyodor Dostoevsky

• ocean
• drowning
• widely

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it. Jodi Picoult

• change
• look
• world

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change. Michael Jackson

• time
• he
• nighttime

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again. Mitch Albom

• history
• going
• something

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it. Joseph Conrad

• wellness
• enough
• wells

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail. Dave Mustaine

• saying
• persistence
• enough

Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice Ann Simpson to a chair and placed her in the furnace room. We forgot her, trooped upstairs to church, and were listening quietly to the sermon when a dreadful banging issued from the radiator pipes, persisting until someone investigated and brought forth Eunice Ann saying she didn't want to play Shadrach any more - Jem Finch said she wouldn't get burnt if... Harper Lee