Wanting Quotes

1660 quotes by 1326 authors

I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in… — Taye Diggs
Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory… — Michael K. Powell
Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting. — David Mitchell
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor. — Bill Nighy
Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is… — Deborah Harkness
I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can… — Elizabeth Meriwether
Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of… — Idris Elba
I surf more now for other people than myself. I feel a lot of support from people wanting me to do well, and I feed… — Kelly Slater
I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments… — Anne Michaels
The Lord has been there from wanting to be a momma, to having a wonderful childhood life and dreaming of having a good motherhood as… — Ashton Shepherd
I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities at… — Matt Mickiewicz
As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to… — John Piper
There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly… — Michelle Tea
I had been wanting to give guitar lessons to girls because I feel like women tend to use their voice as the starting point for… — Marnie Stern
Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to… — Lee Brice
Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot. — Marshall Brickman
The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss and… — Max Stirner
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. — H Schachtel
I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about… — Mother Teresa
It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just… — Jack Handy

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