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394 They Wanted quotes by 353 unique authors

They wanted them to look like the Gods. God doesn't look like this. — James Rollins
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those… — Albert Camus
People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the… — Nicholas Sparks
They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to… — Janet Fitch
To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would… — Ivan KlÃma
I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to… — John Steinbeck
...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were… — Jack London
They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted… — Neal Stephenson
Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine… — Virginia Woolf
Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan,… — Khaled Hosseini
And also...well...i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms." What'd they say?" Over their… — Carolyn Mackler
what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted — Cecelia Ahern
The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth… — Diana Wynne Jones
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if… — Jack Kerouac
They were told what they wanted and they believed it. They can only keep their dream alive by being with others like themselves who will… — Christopher Moore
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could… — Tom Robbins
She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted,… — Jeffery Deaver
when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the… — David Levithan
There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But… — Laura Dave
People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made… — Paolo Giordano
I always felt sorry for humans, spending so much time in front of the mirror. Fixing their hair, makeup, and clothes, mostly to impress others.… — Ellen Schreiber
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places… — Kurt Vonnegut
Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence… — Laura Moriarty

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