Wanting Quotes

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One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to. — Peter Bogdanovich
A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan
Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so… — Richard Flanagan
We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did not work. They talk about wanting reform. That… — Hanan Ashrawi
Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important… — Pepper Schwartz
November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love. — Axl Rose
I think that weâ€™re a culture that runs away from death, for good reason. Nobody really wants to think about the fact that weâ€™re going… — Jon Foreman
Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school.… — Ricky Gervais
What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or… — Eckhart Tolle
Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more. — Jim Rohn
After becoming established as a surfboard manufacturer and surf film producer whose films were shown on TV, all of a sudden all the teachers and… — Greg Noll
Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit home… — Loren D. Estleman
Leave them wanting more and you know theyll call you back. — Bobby Womack
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting,… — Norman Lamm
I started out wanting to coach football. — Lee Majors
A lot of my work has been about the unexpectedâ€”that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at… — Kara Walker
Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward. — Charles Ranlett Flint
I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work.… — Fatima Siad
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered,… — Maile Meloy
Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much… — Alan Judd

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