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Wants Quotes (page 626)

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it. Heinrich Heine
The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have. Andy Rooney
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and..."
She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself F. Scott Fitzgerald
I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: she hated them, and wanted to send them back from where they came from. Nick Hornby
What should one do? If Ruth had any better luck with him I would have thought that he simply had to attach himself to antifatherly gods until he proved himself a man in his own terms...She followed him to the bottom of his burrow, trying to understand, she forgave him incessantly, she was the pacifying force when he and I clashed. And he went out of his way to treat her with even greater impatience and contempt than he treated me. His wretched treatment of his mother was one of the... Wallace Stegner
prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container... Joan Didion
This didn't seem to have anything to do with Old Narnia, which was what Caspian really wanted to hear about, but getting up in the middle of the night is always interesting and he was moderately pleased. C. S. Lewis
If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty. Julian Barnes
I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it. Jerome K. Jerome
When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic. When he gets older, I'd tell him he used to have a brother, but he didn't obey. Steven Wright
We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world. Georges Bataille
[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me? Steve Martin
Voltaire quote: "Man is free at the instant he wants to be."
Man is free at the instant he wants to be. Voltaire
Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten. Mark Twain
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III) Oscar Wilde

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