Wanting Quotes

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The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late. — J. L. Carr
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing. — Robert Olen Butler
If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is… — David Shuster
If you have it you don't need it. If you need it, you don't have it. If you have it, you need more of it.… — Bruce Campbell
Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting.Â It's being tried, found difficult and rejected! — Leonard Ravenhill
There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live, — Marilyn Manson
In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the… — Kate Millett
I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find… — Fred Hoyle
Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in fantasy fiction for… — Robert Liparulo
I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster. — Bob Iger
I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside… — Douglas Coupland
Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have. — Lydia M. Child
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born. — Mignon McLaughlin
Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the… — Helen Fisher
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a… — Walter Bagehot
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting. — Thomas Huxley
Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want. — Wayne Gerard Trotman
I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well. — M.C. Escher
I wanted to be like an actor or a comedian for a little while, because I was always wanting to make people laugh, and being… — Gemma Ward
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward. — Alexandra David-Neel

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