What You Want Quotes (page 33)

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• feeling
• together
• drained

What I want is for both of us to feel safe. What you and I have together shouldn't be draining us like this. It should be the one rock-solid thing we both count on. Sylvia Day

• faces
• wanted
• doing

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. Katherine Mansfield

• confidence
• powerful
• power

You may be sure that we are as well aware as you of the difficulty of contending against your power and fortune, unless the terms be equal. But we trust that the gods may grant us fortune as good as yours, since we are just men fighting against unjust, and that what we want in power will be made up by the alliance of the Lacedaemonians, who are bound, if only for very shame, to come to the aid of their kindred. Our confidence, therefore, after all is not so utterly irrational. Thucydides

• learning
• friend
• friends

You must learn that that’s what friends and family are for – to be imposed upon. One of the Cardinal Rules, if you want to get through life without overexerting yourself, is that, when all else fails, fall back on friends and relations. David Eddings

• kindness
• chocolate
• kindly

You like a cracker? What kind of cracker? Graham, chocolate, cocoanut, whatever you want. Maybe just a plain cracker. I don't have plain crackers. I got graham, chocolate and cocoanut. Alright, a graham cracker. They're in the kitchen, in the closet. Maybe later. Neil Simon

• sleep
• want
• want to sleep

You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The dooris round and open. / Don't go back to sleep. Rumi

• stupid
• saying
• good

You want a piece of advice?" said Ripred."Don't bother. I know what you'll say. The whole thing's stupid," said Gregor."Quite the contrary. I was going to say that life is short. There are only a few good things in it, really. Don't pretend that one isn't happening." said Ripred. Suzanne Collins

• knowingly
• knowing
• want

You must always know what it is that you want. Paulo Coelho

• watch
• hard
• funny

What do you want me to do?” he whispers into the empty air. It’s hard to know. Oh Jimmy, you were so funny. Don’t let me down. From habit he lifts his watch; it shows him its blank face. Zero hour, Snowman thinks. Time to go. Margaret Atwood

• good
• kindness
• hand

What kind of a hand is that,' he said. 'Cramp then if you want. Make yourself into a claw. It will do you no good. Ernest Hemingway

• wishes
• you me
• liked

What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all Georgette Heyer

• enough
• want
• wants

You can never get enough of what you don't really want. Huston Smith

• want
• ever
• wants

You always want the very most what you can never, ever have. Stephenie Meyer

• freedom
• reality
• achievement

What I want to propose to you is that it is possible to achieve the freedom to have any viewpoint you choose and therefore any reality. Deepak Chopra

• strength
• accounting
• us

What saves us is efficiency--the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force-- nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. Joseph Conrad