We Wanted Quotes

372 quotes by 321 authors

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need… — Chuck Palahniuk
We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange"… — Jerry Spinelli
We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment.… — Francine Rivers
You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we? — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats — Roberto Bolano
The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized. — Richard Peck
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
Itâ€™s a sun lamp. I thought you might be tired of your pasty-pale complexion. (Chris) Christopher, I happen to be a Viking in the middle… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?â€ â€œOh no, Ron,â€ came Fredâ€™s voice, very sarcastically. â€œNo, this is exactly where we wanted to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and… — Fannie Flagg
If we all had what we wanted to eat... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. — Jim Thompson
He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted.… — Cassandra Clare
What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we… — John Marsden
- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose,… — Anne Lamott
God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else. — Amy Carmichael
On December 8, 1921, when the Leopoldina set sail for Europe, we were on board. Our life together had finally begun. We held on to… — Paula McLain
We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The… — Jim Thompson
I guess in the end, it doesnâ€™t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had. — Mira Grant

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