Wanting Quotes

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She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes… — Colum McCann
We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know… — John Updike
I'm human," he said in a tormented tone. "And I'm not." He dropped his hand to her shoulder. "I never knew softness," he breathed. "Not… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but… — Joan Didion
Sunshine, itâ€™s the Celt wanting a little reassurance that I havenâ€™t eaten you or anything. (Vane) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive." She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion… — Harry Frankfurt
Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I'll never stop wanting to kiss you," he whispered. — Elizabeth Chandler
It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting. — Deb Caletti
You're beautiful, every part of you. I love your hair, the way it looks, the way it feels. I love touching it, smelling it. I… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work… — George Orwell
They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives. — Albert Camus
They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were… — Virginia Woolf
Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep… — Janet Evanovich
We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with… — Jenny Colgan
If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these… — Elizabeth Gaskell
It's a curious, wanting thing. — Sarah Waters
I am a freak in secondhand velour, a leper who uses L'Oreal Anti-sticky Mega Gel. I am rootless, ripped from all foundations, an orphan raising… — Dave Eggers
Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real.… — Chuck Klosterman

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