Wanting Quotes
1660 quotes by 1326 authors
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But you... You helped me find my way and take the correct path, Naruto... I always chased after you...wanting to catch up...wanting to walk together…
— Masashi Kishimoto
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That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or…
— Nick Hornby
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Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better…
— Nelson Mandela
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It's not easy-living in a void, living and dying inside your head…wanting what you want so much that you'd give everything else to get it-…
— Kevin Brooks
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there are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life!…
— Milan Kundera
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Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives…
— Koren Zailckas
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Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God…
— Alice Walker
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It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself.…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.
— Jodi Picoult
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I defy you to try it, Princess. Go ahead. I don’t even know how to sweep a floor. All I know how to do is…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from…
— Holly Black
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What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention?…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I can't take it anymore. The waiting. The wanting. Something inside me snaps. I hate myself. I hate that I have to deal with this.…
— Susane Colasanti
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I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of…
— John Green
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As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black…
— Neil Gaiman
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We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is…
— Bell Hooks
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