Wants Quotes

6511 Wants quotes by 3896 unique authors

If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf. — Charles Kettering
If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions. — Gary Smalley
Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot. — Samuel Johnson
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. — Phyllis Diller
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end… — Gustave Flaubert
What one wants to do with stories is screw them up. — William H. Gass
Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people. — Unknown Author
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every… — G. M. Trevelyan
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on… — Mark Twain
If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is… — William Faulkner
Be there...care...and put your children first in your life. When you are given the awesome responsibility of being a father, that is the most important… — John Harbaugh
The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets… — Arthur Miller
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is:… — Sam Levenson
You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real… — Unknown Author
Israel wants to make it clear to the government of Egypt that it has no aggressive intentions whatsoever against any Arab state at all — Levi Eshkol
We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I… — Claire Messud
Unicef wants to encourage a sense of stability for a child. — Ralph Fiennes
Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions… — Rachel Weisz
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm… — James A. Michener
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is… — David Foster Wallace
A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted… — David Brooks
Write from the soul, not from some notion what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle; the soul is eternal. — Jeffrey Carver
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. — Richard Peck
You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.' — Aaron Sorkin

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