Wanting Quotes

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I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women. — Anne Lamott
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very… — Mark Twain
All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people… — John Irving
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. — Rumi
If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid… — Robert Penn Warren
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is… — Margaret Atwood
I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty… — Audrey Niffenegger
Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you overlook her most important qualities of… — Ezra Taft Benson
He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word… — William Faulkner
There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort. — John Steinbeck
Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer? — Thomas Hardy
Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found. — Robert Fulghum
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are — Kurt Cobain
[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a… — C.S. Lewis
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her. — Jonathan Franzen
Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us,… — Dan Brown
We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
The idea that making an activity legal would reduce its incidence is preposterous. This is exactly like the Clintonian statement about wanting to make abortion… — Ann Coulter
...Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem get smaller and… — Michael Chabon

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