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Wants Quotes (page 593)

It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run to my friends, my work, and my distractions so that I can forget my nothingness and make myself believe that I am worth something. The task is to persevere in my solitude, to stay in my cell until all my seductive visitors get tired of pounding on my door and leave me alone. The wisdom of the desert is that the confrontation with our own frightening... Henri Nouwen
Nora Roberts quote: "Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?"Kiss a cow..."
Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?"Kiss a cow farm boy Nora Roberts
He told them therefore that He was not a Teacher asking for a disciple who would parrot His sayings; He was a Saviour Who first disturbed a conscience and then purified it. But many would never get beyond hating the disturber. The Light is no boon, except to those who are men of good will; their lives may be evil, but at least they want to be good. His Presence, He said, was a threat to sensuality, avarice, and lust. When a man has lived in a dark cave for years, his eyes cannot stand the... Fulton J. Sheen
Emilie Autumn quote: "Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide..."
Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide. Emilie Autumn
I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful and he wanted me. He broke me off and took me with him, in his hands, and I didn't care that I was dying until I actually was. Alice Hoffman
The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat -And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do. As he do do. And there's no doing anything about it! T. S. Eliot
Sylvia Plath quote: "All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence."
All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence. Sylvia Plath
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap. Chuck Palahniuk
Amy Tan quote: "Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know..."
Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different. Amy Tan
The past is not a place I like to visit. This project is forcing me to go there, to tidy up my thoughts. I'm not normally a navel-gazer. I've always thought you find yourself in other people. I'm visiting here. I don't want to set up house. Bono
Look at Charlie Brown's face. Would you please hold still a minute Charlie Brown? I want Linus to study your face. Now this is what you call a failure face, Linus. Notice how it has failure written all over it. Study it carefully Linus. You rarely see such a good example. Notice the deep lines, the dull vacant look in the eyes. Yes, I would say this is one of the finest examples of a failure face that your liable to see for a long while. Charles M. Schulz
Bob Woodward quote: "Finally, the president added, 'The American people are..."
Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic... Bob Woodward
Muriel Spark quote: "it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they..."
...it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. Muriel Spark
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality. Arthur C. Clarke
Did she make you laugh? Did she love you as much as you loved her? Did she protect you and warm you and keep you from suffering? Valentine turned her eyes away from him, unable to face the empty answer in his face but not wanting to stop saying what she had thought for so long. "I saw how fascinating her mystery was to you. For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most-emptiness. A person full of life is never mysterious, on the contrary. Judith Krantz

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