Quotes About Want

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

We want you to sign a petition," said Mrs. Jellicoe.

I find it inordinately hard to speak about my other brother. He is a mere shadow in the background of my richest and most detailed recollections. It is one of those lives that hopelessly claim a belated something--compassion, understanding, no matter what--which the mere recognition of such a want can neither replace nor redeem.

If you could refresh my recollection on that matter I might be able to recall what you want me to recall, but at this particular time I do not recall the particulars of that particular matter.

I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.

Lack creates desire. I feel becoming it. (Le manque crée le désir. Je sens le devenir)

Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.

Today's lesson?" I say. "The history of slapstick." "You want me to slap you with a stick?" says Stevie.

My experience tells me, unfortunately, that so many people ask the question about 'The Smiths' reforming without really caring about the answer. They just really want to ask the question.

Full access to the single market is what businesses and trade unions want.

It's a fine line to find that balance: to show people enough to give them the promise of something unique, and something they want to see, but at the same time make sure that when they show up for the movie, they're surprised by what they eventually get.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.

My agent said, 'Jerry, Dancing With the Stars - they want you on there.' I said, 'Ain't no way. I'm not going to do that.' Then he came back to me again, and he kept putting pressure on me. I said, 'All right, I'll give it a try.'

For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I'm not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that's the difference, I think.

Actors will, in their mind, want to 'steal the scene,' and the problem is that means the scene didn't work in the first place.

My career before I was main event I was always trying to steal the show and I feel I have a style that can be endearing to the boxing public. It's a style that allows me to box how I want to box.

I just get scared sometimes. I love you in a really big way, and when I imagine our future, I don't see how our paths match up.' 'I don't know how it works, either. I just know I want you.

People don't normally just say, 'Do you want to come and audition for one of your favorite directors?'

Want has been the great schoolmaster of the race: necessity has been the mother of all great inventions.

Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him.

Communism is an interesting thing to do, nothing I ever want to be.

Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire ... and the best piece of advice which can be given to would-be persuaders, whether in business, in the home, in the school, in politics, is: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way

Harry A. Overstreet in his illuminating book Influencing Human Behavior said: "Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire … and the best piece of advice which can be given to would-be persuaders, whether in business, in the home, in the school, in politics, is: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.